Each wing has a black spot in its center. This large butterfly lives in the canopy of rainforests in North Queensland, Australia. The male is more colorful and smaller than the female. The pupa is yellow-gray to bright yellow. For example, the Australian leafwing butterfly is shaped and colored like a leaf, and is very difficult to detect when it is standing still.
Cryptic coloration is a type of camouflage.
This leafy environment is full of life in a tropical rainforest and includes insects, birds, reptiles, mammals, and more. Only a few rare butterflies eat rotting animal flesh. A caterpillar is the larval stage of butterflies and moths. Caterpillars eat almost constantly and molt many times as they grow. CELL A cell is a closed area of an insect wing that is bounded by veins.