The blue morpho's beauty belies a darker aspect of its life cycle - the larvae have a tendency to eat each other. Caterpillars of the Morpho peleides species are cannibalistic, possibly to help ...

The blue morpho is the largest butterfly at 6 to 8 ... It eats toxic plants as a caterpillar,” Dunham said. “A morpho, while they don’t taste bad, may be good to eat for, like birds and ...