Fluffy tit
The fluffy tit is a small butterfly with long, fluffy white tails on its back wings. The boy is pale blue and black, and the girl is brown. Its tails and spots look like a second head, which tricks hungry birds.
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Fun facts
It has false eyes, legs and feelers on its back wings, so a bird may peck the wrong end.
If something attacks it, it flies off in a surprising direction.
Its longest tail can be more than 1 centimetre long.
The girls mostly stay deep in the forest and are rarely seen.
Most asked questions about Fluffy tit
?Why does the fluffy tit have tails?
Its tails and spots look like a fake head. Birds peck there and the butterfly can escape.
?Where does the fluffy tit live?
In India and Southeast Asia, in hot, wet forests.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Zeltus amasa
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Zeltus (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 Anitava Roy. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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