Green comma
The green comma is a butterfly with very ragged, jagged wing edges. On top its wings are reddish brown with dark borders. Underneath they are grey-brown with greenish spots that look like lichen, and a little silver mark shaped like a C or an L.
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Fun facts
Its wings are about 4.5 to 6.5 centimetres from tip to tip.
With its wings closed it looks like a dead leaf with lichen on it.
The grown-up butterflies sleep through the winter and fly again in spring.
There is only one family of them each year.
Its closest cousin is the comma butterfly of Europe.
Most asked questions about Green comma
?Why is it called the green comma?
Because of the green spots under its wings and a small silver mark shaped like a comma or a C.
?Where does the green comma live?
In northern North America, mostly in forests and mountain woods near streams.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Polygonia faunus
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Polygonia faunus (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 Walter Siegmund. CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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