This butterfly is, because of its rarity, one of the World's most valuable, with male specimens typically selling for more than £4,000.00 (US$7,000.00). It would be an ideal candidate for commercial exploitation because its parents are not rare on Bougainville Island and can (apparently) be easily induced to mate with one another.
lets kill it, dry it out and then crush it up and smoke it! I bet it would give a wicked buzz!
too bad the caterpillar only eats the caviar-encrusted feces of the nearly-extinct Bougainville Isle Whooping Faggot Bird (so named for its call and its habit of bundling sticks together for its nest...obviously)
It's only rare because it's an interspecific hybrid and not actually a viable species.
>>274119i lold
If I see that isle whooping faggot bird one more time...
rather have an atlas attacusthis is a small specimen
>>274173Is that a gypsy moth?
>>274229No. It's a Saturniid, Attacus atlas, the atlas moth.