Butterfly with fingers that looks like a fan with legs (10 photos + 1 video)

Pterophorida. The butterfly is better known by not this name, but the fingerwing. Very accurately noting the features of an amazing insect.





In a calm state, it looks like an inconspicuous cross. But in flight it opens completely, to all its ±22 wings. With so many devices for moving through the air, there are no creatures in the real world. If only in fairy tales. But nature really endowed the fingerwing with a significant number of blades.



They are not able to support the carcass of an ordinary butterfly. Therefore, in the process of evolution, the body of this twilight inhabitant of the steppes and fields has changed, becoming longer, thinner and lighter. The shape is more like a mosquito or mosquito.

We can say that the butterfly simply gradually divided the wing plate into many separate ones, covered with fluffy fringe. And she became the happy owner of feather wings.





The decision turned out to be successful. Because the fingerwing is not some rare species found on some island lost in the ocean. There are more than a thousand species of butterflies with feathered wings. And they settled on almost all continents. And at this stage, the caterpillars methodically deal with cultivated plants, eating everything that falls into their mouths.

Thus, the artichoke fingerwing cannot imagine life without artichokes. And geranium, accordingly, cannot imagine life without pelargonium. True, there is also a small category that prefers weeds.



The caterpillars hide from their enemies by carefully wrapping themselves in a leaf. And not every bird will like such a delicacy covered with coarse hairs.

He is philosophical about the subsequent development of the fingerwing and does not particularly bother himself with creating a cocoon. It hangs and sways in the wind in full view of potential donors. And it gets eaten. But a lot remains, judging by the distribution of flying fans.



The existence of this angel-like baby once again proves that our world is much more complex and amazing than it seems at first glance.