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Blue morpho caterpillar

Morpho menelaus

Description:

approx. 1 1/4 inch long

Habitat:

spotted in the garden inside the National Museum

2 Species ID Suggestions

Blue morpho butterfly
Morpho menelaus Blue morpho (Morpho menelaus) caterpillar
EarlyStages
EarlyStages 12 years ago
Common Morpho or very near kin
Morpho helenor Results - caterpillar images


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4 Comments

EarlyStages
EarlyStages 12 years ago

Morpho menelaus caterpillars look different . . .
https://picasaweb.google.com/leonasay/Iq...
. . . with the "Blue morpho" Mongabay photo in the above link misidentified (should also be M. helenor or very near kin).

auntnance123
auntnance123 12 years ago

Thank you Juan.

MartinL
MartinL 12 years ago

This is interesting. I never knew the larva of the morpho. It seems they are show offs at all stages of their lives.

alicelongmartin
alicelongmartin 12 years ago

Wow! at first I thought he was swimming! Stunning caterpilar.

auntnance123
Spotted by
auntnance123

San José, San José, Costa Rica

Spotted on Dec 23, 2011
Submitted on Dec 25, 2011

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