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WARM BLOODED Warm blooded (or endothermic) animals generate their own body heat to maintain their body temperature. Birds and mammals are endothermic. |
WARNING COLORATION Warning coloration (or aposematic coloration) is the bright, attention-getting coloration that protects an organism from experienced predators (i.e., predators who have previously eaten a similar-looking animal and have gotten sick from it). Both poisonous organisms (like the Monarch butterfly) and its mimics (poisonous or not) are said to have aposematic coloration. |
WESTERN PYGMY BLUE The Western Pygmy Blue, Brephidium exilis, is the smallest butterfly in the United States. The adult is about 3/8 inch wide. The eggs are blue-green; the caterpillar is light green and eats pickleweed, saltbush, and pigweed. Family Lycaenidae. |
WINGS Butterflies and moths have four wings. The wings are made of two chitonous layers (membranes) that are nourished and supported by tubular veins. |
WINGSPAN Wingspan is the distance measured across a butterfly's (or moth's) wings. |
WOOD NYMPH BUTTERFLY The wood nymph butterfly, also called the rice paper butterfly, paper kite butterfly, or tree nymph (Idea leuconoe) is a distinctive black and white butterfly. The wingspan is 95 to 110 cm across. The chrysalis is yellow with black markings. It is from Southeast Asia. Classification: superfamily Papilionigiae, family Nymphalidae, subfamily Danainae, Genus Idea, Species I. Leuconoe. |
WOOLLY BEAR The woolly bear caterpillar is the hairy caterpillar of any of the tiger moths (family Arctiidae). |
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