•   In order to survive they have had to go through several changes. The underside of their wings is the same color as foliage in order to camouflage when they crypsis (fold wings when resting so the only the underside shows). Even though, it has been forced to change its life style in order to protect itself. It has learned to fly in a very unusual way so that the blue side of their wings shows only once in a while and very quickly. A very interesting fact about how they protect themselves is that they flash the bright blue side of their wings in the face of baby jaguars and blind them.
• The blue morpho’s diet changes throughout each stage of its lifecycle. As a caterpillar, it chews leaves of many varieties, but prefers to dine on plants in the pea family. When it becomes a butterfly it can no longer chew, but drinks its food instead. Adults use a long, protruding mouth part called a proboscis as a drinking straw to sip the juice of rotting fruit, the fluids of decomposing animals, tree sap, fungi and wet mud. Blue morphos taste fruit with sensors on their legs, and they "taste-smell" the air with their antennae, which serve as a combined tongue and nose.
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