Question

The Indian leaf butterfly has traits that allow it to resemble a leaf. The bright colors of the monarch butterfly indicates that the butterfly’s tastes bad and can be poisonous. How does the appearance of these butterfly’s help them survive

Answer 1

Answer:

(Indian Leaf Butterfly) CAMOUFLAGED

(Monarch Butterfly) CHEMICAL DEFENSE and COLOURFUL WARNING SIGNALS

Explanation:

The Indian leaf butterflies survives by camouflaging to deceive a potential enemy. They could also seek survival by blending to their presents environment such that a supposed enemy finds it hard to identify with their presence.

The monarch Butterfly are very colourful and are super in defending themselves through chemical means.

By chemical defense, they do well to feed on milkweed which is highly poisonous but they have their way of isolating themselves from the consumed poison.

They also send away predators using their colourful warning signals and bright colours. This colours informs predators that they contain poisonous contents.

When a predator bites a monarch Butterfly, it taste the poisons in the wings of the butterfly and let it go. But if peradventure a birds swallows a monarch, the experience of the taste of the poisons teaches the bird never to hunt a monarch Butterfly again