Believed to be a Cairns Birdwing butterfly caterpillar in the larvae stage eating the leaves of a special vine which while nutritious to it are poisonous to other caterpillars.
The toxins in the leaves are stored in its orange-red spines and also warn predators that they are poisonous. Danger signs exposed below on well munched vine where four tiny new caterpillars have been found .
Before turning into a chrysalis , the larvae climbs into a nearby tree , attaches itself to look like a dead leaf , later emerging with wings, a female shown here, the brighter male only lives four to five weeks , mates faster than Speed Gordon..
(Butterfly,Toxic, Dead.)
