Great jay
The great jay is a swallowtail butterfly from warm rainforests. Its black wings are decorated with chains of pale green spots, and a big green patch sits in the middle of each front wing. Underneath, its back wings have a few bright red spots.
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Fun facts
Its wings are about 7 to 8 centimetres from tip to tip.
Its caterpillar is black or smoky until it grows up, then it turns dull green.
Its pupa is usually green, but it can change colour to match whatever it is hanging on.
It has many slightly different kinds on different islands.
Most asked questions about Great jay
?What does the great jay eat?
Its caterpillars eat custard apple and soursop leaves and similar plants.
?How big is the great jay butterfly?
Its wings are about 7 to 8 centimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Graphium eurypylus
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Papilionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Papilionidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Pale green triangle
Where the facts come from
- Graphium eurypylus (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 Aviceda. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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