Heliconius Numata Butterfly 2019 Canvas Print

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Corner Detail: Stretched canvas print with 1.5" stretcher bars and mirrored image sides.   Also available with black sides, whites sides, and 5/8" stretcher bars.

Bring your artwork to life with the texture and depth of a stretched canvas print.   Your image gets printed on one of our premium canvases and then stretched on a wooden frame of 1.5" x 1.5" stretcher bars (gallery wrap) or 5/8" x 5/8" stretcher bars (museum wrap).   All stretched canvases ship within 3 - 4 business days and arrive "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.

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Pixels is one of the largest, most-respected giclee printing companies in the world with over 40 years of experience producing museum-quality prints.   All of our prints are produced on state-of-the-art, professional-grade Epson printers.   We use acid-free papers and canvases with archival inks to guarantee that your prints last a lifetime without fading or loss of color.

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This lovely Longwing butterfly is a Heliconius numata longwing. They are a widespread species, found from Panama to Bolivia. The colorful Amazonian butterfly has seven different wing color patterns, each of which mimics the wing patterns of seven different species in the genus Melinaea. The reason for this mimicry is biological warfare. Melinaea caterpillars eat plants in the deadly nightshade family and sequester their host plant's poisons in their tissues. These accumulated poisons make Melinaea butterflies toxic to birds, who learn to associate specific wing patterns with a sickening meal. By adopting the same warning patterns as their toxic Melinaea butterfly neighbors, Numata butterflies also benefit.

But Heliconius numata are also toxic to birds, but they rely on a different poison: their caterpillars feed on toxic plants in the passion flower family. This evolutionary phenomenon where two or more harmful species -- such as Heliconius numata and Melinaea -- mimic each...

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