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Glasswing Butterfly

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Or Greta oto, their habitat extends throughout Central America into Mexico. They prefer to lay their eggs on plants from the nocturnal and toxic Cestrum genus, which in addition to feeding the young caterpillars, contribute alkaloids which stay stored in their tissues through adulthood, making them distasteful to birds and other predators.

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