Aeropetes

The mountain pride butterfly, Aeropetes tulbaghia, and the red disa Butterflies are not usually picky, but this big brown butterfly of South Africa's mountains is. It is strongly attracted to red, pollinates around 15 red-flowered Cape plants and largely ignores flowers of any other color. Its most famous partner is the red disa, Disa uniflora, a scentless orchid that grows beside remote mountain streams in the Western Cape and on the upper slopes of Table Mountain, and offers its visitor nectar. Those red flowers are tuned to this one butterfly, and conservationists warn that if it disappeared they would face extinction.