A Blue Morpho butterfly rests on the leg of Lisa's pants at the Springs Preserve Butterfly Habitat in Las Vegas on Monday, April 17, 2017. Miranda Alam Las Vegas Review-Journal @miranda_alam ...

While habitat loss and collection can threaten local populations, the Blue Morpho is not currently classified as endangered The island marble butterfly (Euchloe ausonides insulanus) is endemic to ...

Morpho butterflies are emblematic species of the Amazonian rainforest known for their metallic shades of blue and green ... species co-occur in the same habitat - that is, they live in “sympatry ...

In addition to natural predators such as the jacamar bird, the blue morpho is suffering from habitat loss and from ... is the largest butterfly in the world. Living only in the forests of the ...

Gleaming in the air, the iridescent blue morpho protects itself from predators using the power of light. Native to the rainforests of Mexico, Central America and South America, this bright blue ...

animals and minerals their intense shades of blue. Morpho butterflies such as the one pictured above owe their brilliance to the structure of their wing scales. Morpho wings are pigmented brown, but ...

Be careful to not step on, or touch the butterflies in their habitat. "You'll see the kind of world famous Blue Morpho butterfly, which is one of the most distinct rainforest butterflies.

Among the hundreds of featured species is the blue ... butterfly. It also features Sloane's urania, an extinct species of moth believed to have been wiped out in the late 1890s due to habitat ...