What are the ways butterflies can resist predators?

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There are ants, beetles, birds, flies, lizards, frogs, toads, praying mantises, spiders, wasps, parasitic wasps, etc.

1, lizard, commonly known as "four-legged snake" also known as "snake aunt", are distributed all over the world, belong to the cold-blooded reptile class, its wide variety, there are about 3,000 species distributed on the earth, there are more than 150 species known in China, most of the species are carnivorous, feed on insects, earthworms, snails, and even mice, but there are also cacti or seaweed as the staple food, or omnivorous.

2. The praying mantis is a carnivorous insect that hunts all kinds of insects and small animals, and can eliminate many pests in fields and forest areas, so it is a beneficial insect. Brutal and aggressive by nature, there is often a phenomenon of devouring and eating females and males when they lack food, and some species in South America and Southeast Asia can also attack small animals such as birds, lizards or frogs from time to time.

The natural enemies of butterflies are: ants, beetles, lizards, etc.

1. The body of an ant is divided into three parts: head, thorax, and abdomen. The size of the ants varies widely, ranging from 1 mm to 20 mm in length, with the smallest thief ants reaching no more than 2 mm in length. The body color of ants is mostly brown, black, brown, and orange.

Some have markings, and there are obvious thin waist joints between the chest and abdomen, which are dull or have a metallic luster. The body of ants is smooth, or has pubescence, spines, stripes, reticulations, and protrusions. Toothless and suitable for soft or liquid feeding.

The body of the ant is divided into three parts: head, thorax, and abdomen, with six legs, thin and elastic body walls, membranous wings, hard and brittle.

2. The beetle body is small to large. The body wall is hard, the forewings are hard, keratinized, forming elytra, which meet in a straight line on the dorsal ** when at rest, and the hindwings are membranous, usually stacked horizontally under the elytra. Both adults and larvae have chewing mouthparts.

The larvae are mostly oligopod, usually well-developed thoracopods, and degenerate gastropods. Pupae are de-pupae. The eggs are mostly round or spherical.

3. The body of lizards is generally divided into four parts: head, neck, trunk and tail. The epidermis of the body is leathery scales, and some species also have small bony plates under the scales, such as skinks and snake lizards. Lizards have small teeth, and the shape and length of their tongues vary depending on the species.

The eyes are more developed, some species also have cranial parietal eyes, except for most geckos, the eyelids are motile and motile in general, and the burrowing type of eyes are mostly hidden under the skin.

Its ears and tympanic membrane are mostly exposed, and the tympanic membrane is well developed. The left and right mandible bones are united by bone sutures, so the mouth should not be opened too wide. Most lizards have limbs, but some have only forelimbs or hind limbs, claws at the ends of their fingers and toes, and sternum.

There are many natural enemies of butterflies, and animals that can prey on butterflies may be natural enemies of butterflies. Examples include birds, lizards, snakes, frogs, dragonflies, praying mantises, toads, etc.

Butterfly, commonly known as "butterfly", is a general term for arthropods, insects, lepidoptera, and hammerhorns. There are about 14,000 species in the world, most of which are found in the Americas, especially in the Amazon Basin. There are 1200 species in China.

Butterflies are generally brightly colored, there are many stripes on the body, the colors are richer, the wings and body have various spots, the largest butterfly spreads its wings up to about 28 30 cm, and the smallest is only about cm. The main difference between butterflies and moths is that butterflies have a pair of club-like or hammer-shaped antennae on their heads, and moths have antennae that come in a variety of shapes.

Natural enemies, a certain organism in nature specializes in preying on or harming another organism, and the analysis of interspecific relationships in biological communities can be predation relationships or parasitic relationships, such as cats are natural enemies of mice, parasitic wasps are natural enemies of certain crop pests, and bacteriophages are natural enemies of some bacteria. Natural enemies are an indispensable part of the biological chain.

The natural enemies of butterflies mainly include: ants, beetles, birds, flies, lizards, frogs, toads, praying mantises, spiders, wasps, parasitic wasps, etc.

Birds, beetles, lizards, frogs.

1. Insectivorous birds. Although most birds are omnivores, there are some birds that prefer insects as their staple food, such as, cuckoos, gray magpies, etc., 75% of their food is caterpillars, especially cuckoos and gray magpies like to eat caterpillars the most, and caterpillars are actually butterfly larvae, so for butterflies, the natural enemies of caterpillars are its natural enemies, such birds will scratch on the ground after preying on caterpillars, in order to remove the poisonous hairs on the caterpillars, and finally enjoy the larvae of butterflies safely.

2. Ants. Although the ant is very small, it is a very big threat to the butterfly eggs, and we sometimes see the empty shells of the butterfly chrysalis, which are basically the butterfly eggs and larvae that are eaten by the ant colony, so the power of the ants should not be underestimated. In addition, the corpse of a butterfly after death may also be moved back to the nest to eat and be stopped, which is not to be said because the butterfly's wings are mainly composed of scales, so basically it will not eat wings.

To sum up, it is not an exaggeration to call ants the natural enemies of butterflies.

3. Lizards. Lizards are basically the natural enemies of all insects, especially a species called butterfly lizards, which specialize in preying on butterfly creatures, whenever a butterfly lands on a flower stamen to suck nectar, or falls to a puddle on the ground to drink water, the lizard may bite it on its back and swallow it whole, so it is a veritable butterfly predator.

4. Parasitic wasps. The parasitic wasp is the best at injecting its eggs into the host's body, and its larvae will eat the host after hatching, and this way makes it the natural enemy of most insects, even the natural enemy of large insect spiders, and the butterfly, a weak insect, of course, can not escape its hands, especially when the butterfly pupae have not hatched, it is also the most dangerous.

1. Insectivorous birds. Although most birds are omnivores, there are also some birds that prefer insects as their staple food, such as, cuckoos, gray magpies, etc., 75% of their food is caterpillars, especially cuckoos and gray magpies like to eat caterpillars the most, and caterpillars are actually butterfly larvae, so for butterflies, the natural enemies of caterpillars are its natural enemies, such birds will scratch on the ground after preying on caterpillars, so as to remove the poisonous hairs on the caterpillars, and finally enjoy the larvae of butterflies safely.

2. Ants. Although the ant is very small, it is a great threat to the butterfly eggs, and we sometimes see the empty shells of the butterfly chrysalis, which are basically the butterfly eggs and larvae that are eaten by the ant colony, so the power of the ants should not be underestimated. The corpse of the butterfly after its death may also be carried back to the nest and eaten up, but since the butterfly's wings are mainly made up of scales, it basically does not eat wings.

To sum up, it is not an exaggeration to call the Tuan Burning ant the natural enemy of butterflies.

3. Lizards. Lizards are basically the natural enemies of all insects, especially a species called butterfly lizards, which specialize in preying on butterfly creatures, whenever a butterfly lands on a flower stamen to suck nectar, or falls to a puddle on the ground to drink water, the lizard may bite it on its back and swallow it whole, so it is a veritable butterfly predator.

4. Parasitic wasps. The parasitic wasp is the best at injecting its eggs into the host's body, and its larvae will eat the host after hatching, and this way makes it the natural enemy of most insects, even the natural enemy of large insect spiders, and the butterfly, a weak insect, of course, can not escape its hands, especially when the butterfly pupae have not hatched, it is also the most dangerous.

Butterflies have many natural predators.

Many birds and animals prey on a variety of insects, including butterflies.

In addition, praying mantis and spiders also prey on good butterflies.

The natural enemies of butterflies are: ants, beetles, birds, flies, lizards, frogs, toads, praying mantises, spiders, wasps, parasitic wasps, etc.

Predatory predators.

Birds When nesting and feeding young birds, a large number of butterfly or moth larvae are captured to supplement protein and allow young birds to grow quickly.

Lizard is good at camouflage, and it can always give butterflies a fatal accident.

Spiders Some wait with their webs, others ambush or wander among the flowers to catch"Accidentally"of butterflies, sucking their bodily fluids.

The praying mantis waits for the butterfly to fall into the net among the flowers or trees, and the stationmaster has also discovered that the praying mantis lays its eggs on the butterfly host plant, so that the baby mantis is not afraid of no food.

Dragonfly It is agile and will intercept butterflies in flight from the sky and gnaw on its body.

Insectivorous flies are fast flyers and will also catch butterflies in flight from the air and suck bodily fluids.

Carnivorous Tsubaki elephants are not capable of catching adults, but butterfly larvae and pupae are often exposed to absorbing bodily fluids.

Others such as long-legged wasps, tiger bees, mice, geckos, cockroaches, ants. But it's all the same"Butterfly Killer"。

Parasitic predators.

The molting stage of larvae and the soft epidermis during pupation are the most susceptible to parasitism.

Parasitic wasps There are many species of parasitic wasps, and they will follow the smell to find the eggs, larvae or pupae of the butterfly to lay eggs and parasitize, so that the butterfly will die.

Parasitic flies They will also follow the smell to find the larvae of butterflies or pupae to lay eggs and parasitize, feeding on the tissues inside the host, and the parasitic larvae or pupae will die and rot.

In addition, ectoparasites often attach to the body wall of butterflies and suck butterfly body fluids.

Microbial infections.

The larvae may also suffer from bacterial infections during growth and soften and die.

Birds, frogs (toads), spiders, insectivorous insects, lizards, etc. These are the real meanings"Predators".

And human beings are dishonorable characters, not natural enemies, but acquired greedy and superfluous truths"Killers'.

In fact, all animals have no natural predators, the only natural predators are humans!