rare ‘half male and half female’ Butterfly

This is the incredibly rare half male, half female butterfly which has been discovered. 

According to the experts, the chances of a butterfly hatching half-male and half-female is about only one in 10,000 or 0.01 per cent.

An ‘extremely rare’ half male, half female butterfly has been found.

The Great Mormon’s sex division occurs straight down the middle of the abdomen giving it different wing patterns.

Its male left side is almost completely black while the right female side has a small patch of red and some yellow colouring. 

Lepidopterist Louise Hawkins said the phenomenon happens ‘very early on’ in the development of a butterfly when the ‘sex chromosomes don’t divide properly’.

It makes the creature infertile and they generally tend to have a shorter life span as their internal organs will be ‘a bit mixed up’.

Source: Daily mail

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