Striped blue crow

The Striped blue crow is a large, dark butterfly. Males show a brilliant blue gloss over black wings marked with curved rows of pale blue white spots, while females are plainer brown with larger, purer white spots and streaks in the same pattern.

Caterpillars feed on a range of plants including oleander and giant milkweed, both of which contain toxins that the caterpillars retain into adulthood, making the adult butterfly distasteful and mildly poisonous to predators that try to eat it. Adults fly through most of the year at forest edges, parks and gardens.