California patch
The California patch is a bright butterfly from the deserts of the southwestern United States and Mexico. Its wings are brownish-black with a wide yellow-orange band and big orange spots. It flutters through dry desert washes and canyons.
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Fun facts
Its wings measure about 32 to 51 millimetres from tip to tip.
Under its back wing there is a red spot near the body that blends into the orange band.
It lives in desert washes, the dry riverbeds that only fill with water after rain.
Most asked questions about California patch
?Where does the California patch live?
In deserts of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, in dry washes and canyons.
?What does the California patch eat?
Grown-ups drink flower nectar. Caterpillars eat Parish goldeneye and sometimes sunflowers.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Chlosyne californica
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Chlosyne californica (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Jarek Tuszyński. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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