Starry night cracker
The starry night cracker is a black butterfly sprinkled with shiny blue speckles, like a night sky full of stars. It lives high up in tropical forests. Birds leave it alone because it tastes bad.
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Fun facts
Its caterpillars store bad-tasting chemicals from their food plant, so birds called jacamars learn to avoid the adults.
It likes to rest head down on tree trunks with its wings pressed flat against the bark.
Its caterpillars have short horns on their heads, and nobody knows what they are for.
Its pupa is bright green.
Most asked questions about Starry night cracker
?Why is it called the starry night cracker?
Because its black wings are covered in shiny blue speckles, like stars in the night sky.
?What does the starry night cracker eat?
Adults drink juice from rotting fruit. Caterpillars eat the leaves of a vine.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hamadryas laodamia
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Starry cracker
Where the facts come from
- Hamadryas laodamia (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Thomas Bresson. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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