Me too, morpho are one of my favorites too

+Kristen Zavar Yay, that's awesome! I'm glad the video helped! I think I'll always be amazed by metamorphosis, no matter what age :)

Glad you enjoyed it :)

Hate to break it to you but there is no blue pigment on the wings, just a structure evolved to reflect blue light and cancel out the others. edit: typo

danie peres It really is! I learned about the butterfly life cycle so many times, and I still learned so much just watching them :)

The thing making the abdomen large is the fluid stored in it. They pump said fluid into the wings

Yes

Saskia Vanell yeah! :) it's pretty sweet

Merci beaucoup :) J'aime les papillons aussi! Ils sont tres interessants.

Hi, Bit of a late response but all of these were released into a butterfly garden in Costa Rica with two different enclosed gardens for the Blue Morphos. I'm not sure how many new individuals need to be added to keep down interbreeding (it would probably depend on population size), but since capturing butterflies in the wild is illegal there, all of these pupas were bought from suppliers.

Dankjewel :)

These are common blue morphos. They aren’t going extinct anytime soon. Releasing butterflies doesn’t really help the populations that much. It never works.