Just like frogs, butterflies produce their own medicine, and they dose themselves with it while they are still caterpillars. This is why Monarch butterflies lay their eggs on milkweed plants, which contain high levels of chemicals that are toxic to predators (but don’t hurt the caterpillars, which also feed on milkweed). In LiveScience.com, Andrea Leontiou quotes researcher Jaap De Roode as saying, "You look at these creatures that we think are very simple, and they can do this fantastic thing. They look at nature as a medicine cabinet.read more

This Google Maps photo, noticed accidentally by a user, is a genuine unknown. It appears on the Google Maps website as well as on other sites. There is an aircraft in the picture also, showing that it is not a plane. Grade A. This is a link to the page where the image appears in Google Maps Poland
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