The owl butterfly (Caligo atreus) is a giant tropical acrobat that wears giant, hypnotic eyespots on its underwings to aggressively catfish hungry birds into thinking it is a terrifying predator instead of a juicy snack.
Native to the rainforests of Central and South America, these massive flyers treat daily life like an absolute stealth mission—they sleep all day hiding in plain sight, wake up just as the sun goes down for the ultimate twilight snack run on rotting fruit, and cruise around the jungle canopy with a dramatic, bouncing flight pattern that makes them look more like a panicked bat than a butterfly.
Size: 34 x 38 cm / 13.4 x 15 in Size of each butterfly: approx 11 x 12 cm
Medium: watercolour and ink Paper: 100% cotton, 640 g/m²
