Mirror, mirror, on the wall, which is the prettiest butterfly of them all? We know that butterflies are amongst the prettiest of insects. Arguably, the prettiest amongst them belong to a.

Peacock butterfly. By Rowan Hooper. ... peacock butterflies are flighty insects, and if you see the mottled tortoiseshell on the underwing of the animal, ...

The peacock butterfly often cheats death with nothing more than a bluff, suddenly exposing its wings' prominent eyespots to startle predatory birds. Close. Advertisement. Skip to content.

The wings of the Krishna Peacock, one of seven candidates for the national butterfly, diffracts light to coat itself in radiance. We walk you through the magic. Home; ... to learn that among the seven ...

The rapidly-fading summer of 2015 was great for Peacock butterflies. Numbers were exceptionally high in my neck of the woods and these large and handsome creatures were lovely to see.