Owl Butterfly

Cahuita, Costa Rica (2002).
The owl butterfly is known for it’s huge eyespots, which resemble owls’ eyes. It lives between sea level and 5,250 feet and is occasionally a pest to bananas. Owl butterflies are very large (2.6–7.9 in) and fly only a few meters at a time, so avian predators have little difficulty in following them to their settling place. However, the butterflies preferentially fly at dusk, when few avian predators are around.