Queen Alexandra's Birdwing is the biggest butterfly in the world, with a wingspan up to 1 ft 30 cm w

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• Queen Alexandra's Birdwing is the biggest
  butterfly in the world, with a wingspan up to 1
  ft (30 cm) wide. This rare, tropical butterfly is
  from a lowland coastal rainforest in New Guinea.
  This huge butterfly is on the U.S. Endangered
• Species List.
• Its rainforest
• habitat is being
• reduced as oil
• palm plantations
• are created.

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• This enormous butterfly was named by Alfred S.
  Meek (in 1907) to honor Queen Alexandra
  (1844-1925), the Danish wife of King Edward VII
  of England (1841-1910).

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• The males and females are very different in
  size, wing coloration, pattern, and shape, and
  body color. The female is larger, has brown wings
  (with white markings) and has a cream-colored
  body with a red tuft of fur on the thorax. The
  male is smaller, much brighter (with blue and
  green marking on its wings) and a bright yellow
  body.

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