Tanisha+Henry+-+Queen+Alexandra+Birdwing+Butterfly

The Queen Alexandra birdwing butterfly's natural habitat is terrestrial meaning it lives in an environment placed on land as opposed to water,air, or in trees. The area that it lives in is a very localized distribution.The animal is found in a small strip lowland coastal rainforest in Northern Papua New Guinea. This is a present specie but is known as an endangered specie as of right now.
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The scientific name for the Queen Alexandra Birdwing Butterfly is Ornithoptera Alexandrae. As a a catepiller it's first meal is it's own eggshell. After that, the catepillar eats the pipevine plant( Aristotochia schlecter) storing the plants poison into their bodies. This makes them digusting and harmful to predators. The plant is a long leaved, tree climbing vine with seed pods. Butterflies can only sip liquid food with their tube-like proboscis((A long tongue). There living requirements or climate requirements are very tropical. They live in lowland tropical forests and open woodland. They belong to three genera's, Ornithoptera, Trogonoptrea, and Troides. Queen Alexandra Birdwing Butterfly's are known for their size, big wings, and their birdlike flight. The female is much larger then the male which symbolysis more power and significance. The female is larger, has brown wings that can grow up to 27.5 cm, and a cream colored body with a red tuft of fur on the thorax. The male is smaller and brighter, with blue and green on it's wing that can grow up to 15 cm, and a brightyellow body. When the Alexandra Birdwing Butterfly lays 23 of it's eggs on the toxic Aristolochia Schlecteri pipevine plant. When the catepillars ingest the poison they become toxic to predators that eat them. ( There predators throw up or get sick, but do not die). After a month the butterfly is an adult and can reproduce. There lifespan of an adult can go up to three months. They come out when the canopy dips into river channels or natural openings.There living habits are pretty solitary. They are group species because the are similiar species to the moth. The Queen Alaxandra Birdwing Butterfly is experiencing habitat loss because people are continuously cutting the plant down that the Butterfly's feed on and they are cutting down more trees for industrialization. This significant specie had been listed as as an endagered specie since 1989. The Endangered Species Act of 1973was signed on December 28, 1973 and provides the conservation of species that are endangered of threatened through out significant portion of range, and the conservation of the ecosystems on which they demand. A species is known to be endangered when or if it is in danger of extinction through significant portion of it's range. A species is consider threatened when it is likely to become endangered with the future. The population of these significant butterfly's is not yet clarified but out of 50 there wud be 30 females and 20 males. Again this shows the need for more females and the role they play in their environment.
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 * They are Endangered**

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