The Male Queen Alexandra Butterfly (Image by Google)
The Female Queen Alexandra Butterfly (Image by Google)
The largest butterflies in the world are from Papua New Guinea! The species Ornithoptera alexandrae was discovered by Albert Stewart Meek in 1906, a collector employed by Lord Walter Rothschild (who later baptized the animals in 1907). The name is a homage to Queen Alexandra, spouse to King Edward the VII from the United Kingdom.
The females reach up to 31 cm wingspan, 8 cm length and 12 grams of body spam. They have brown wings with white spots. Their body has cream color with a red spot in the thorax. The males are smaller and more colorful, with iridescent blue and green wings and a medium of 16 cm wingspan. Some of them have golden spots in the hind wings, a form called atavus.
I'm not afraid of butterflies, but if one of those fly towards me, I'll probably run!
The females reach up to 31 cm wingspan, 8 cm length and 12 grams of body spam. They have brown wings with white spots. Their body has cream color with a red spot in the thorax. The males are smaller and more colorful, with iridescent blue and green wings and a medium of 16 cm wingspan. Some of them have golden spots in the hind wings, a form called atavus.
I'm not afraid of butterflies, but if one of those fly towards me, I'll probably run!
~Ally
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