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Article: Butterflies, charming but self-armed!
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- The Sunday Observer
- Article date:
- May 17, 2009
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Colombo, May 17 -- Everyone, young or old, likes butterflies and is enchanted by their presence. But how many of them know that some butterflies are perfumed and smell of verbena, lemon or pineapple or that some butterflies have evolved protective coloration or resort to rues against the attacks by predators? Have you ever heard of the butterflies which in their larval stage cohabit with the ants being tended by them in their nests or of larvae showing cannibalistic tendencies.
Well, these are some of the aspects in the interesting life history of the "Scaly-winged Tribe" that should make the study of butterflies more alluring than simply observing them in the field and feasting one's eyes ...