The colours on these butterflies are enticing to many butterfly collectors. When you put birdwing in the name of a butterfly, you would expect a massive butterfly, and that is exactly what you get with the Chimaera Birdwing!įemales can grow up to 7 inches in wingspan with males topping out at almost 6 inches! This diet allows them to live much longer than other butterflies. These butterflies are some of the few that can eat pollen in addition to nectar. This butterfly is native to South and Central America and can even be found throughout the southern part of the United States. However, there are red spots at the base of the wings.

This is almost exactly what you get with the Zebra Longwing butterfly. You must expect a butterfly with black and white stripes with a name like Zebra Longwing. The Kaiser-i-Hind butterfly is protected throughout India and Nepal, but thanks to its bold and beautiful looks, collectors often come in search of butterflies to add to their collections. These butterflies are native to the eastern Himalayan mountains. This butterfly is also called the Emperor of India, and with its stately green and yellow blotches, it is easy to see why. The underside of their wings has rust-coloured patches decorated with an almost powder blue. The Schaus swallowtail butterfly has beautiful blackish-brown wings and yellow markings. With a wingspan of about 3.25 inches, it is a much smaller butterfly than the blue morpho butterfly. This butterfly is found in southern Florida down into the Caribbean. The island marble butterfly is only found on the San Juan Islands off the Washington state’s coast. Since its rediscovery, it has been on the endangered list. This butterfly is a subspecies of the marble butterfly and was thought to be extinct until it was rediscovered in 1998. Sadly, this butterfly is becoming less and less seen as its population decreases due to deforestation and climate change. This butterfly boasts beautiful sapphire blue wings that are its signature. The blue morpho butterfly is native to South America and has a wingspan of 5.5 inches. Check them out and find out if you have been lucky enough to spot them! Blue Morpho There are no true blue plants even if they tend to look blue to us, the wavelengths they give off prove they are not truly blue.īlue butterflies are often thought to be nature’s way of completing the colour wheel since blue exists so rarely in other creatures.īelow, I have listed 10 of the rarest butterflies. Blue is already a colour that is hard to find in nature. Well, it turns out that blue butterflies are the rarest colour. If there are no pink butterfly species, what are the rarest coloured butterflies?

Pink is a colour that does not exist in nature as there are no pink wavelengths. Some butterflies may appear pink or have a pink hue because of the iridescence of their scales, but there are currently no pink butterflies. But have you ever seen one in a shade of pink? Well, do pink butterflies exist in the first place? You’ll often see bright orange, yellow, green and white butterflies fluttering around your garden.

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