Blue Morpho

Please help me to find the way to my homelands. Mexico,northern south America,central America,Paraguay and Trinidad. I would love to see rainforests and other butterflies. Please post pictures of my adventures so my family in England can see where i have been. Keep me flying and pass me on

[i know this tb isnt really a blue morpho but its the closest i could get!]                                                                                                                                                                                                        

~~The Peleides Blue Morpho, Common Morpho is an iridescent tropical butterfly found in Mexico, Central America, northern South America, Paraguay, and Trinidad. Some authorities[3] believe that peleides is a subspecies of Morpho helenor.

The brilliant blue color in the butterfly's wings is caused by the diffraction of the light from millions of tiny scales on its wings. It uses this to frighten away predators, by flashing its wings rapidly. The wingspan of the Blue Morpho butterfly ranges from 7.5–20 cm (3.0–7.9 in). The entire Blue Morpho butterfly lifecycle, from egg to adult is only 115 days. Known larval foodplants are Leguminosae (Arachis hypogaea, Dioclea wilsonii, Inga spp., Lonchocarpus, Machaerium cobanense, Machaerium salvadorense, Machaerium seemannii, Medicago sativa, Mucuna mutisiana, Pithecellobium, Pterocarpus rohrii, Mucuna urens), and Bignoniaceae (Paragonia pyramidata). Morpho peleides drinks the juices from rotting fruits for food. Its favourites in captivity are mango, kiwi, and lychee. Morpho peleides butterflies live in the rainforests of South America, and can be found in Mexico and Central America.

The larvae of Morpho peleides butterflies are occasional cannibals. These caterpillars are red-brown with patches of bright green.

Morpho peleides butterflies stick together in groups to deter their predators, a form of mobbing behavior.[