Lurcher
Yoma sabina
The lurcher is a butterfly from northern Australasia and Southeast Asia. Its wings are about 7 centimetres across, as wide as a small hand. Its caterpillars grow up on plants called wild petunias.
Lives in
Northern Australasia and Southeast Asia
Wingspan
7 cm (2.8 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other butterflies, the grown-up drinks nectar. Its caterpillars eat the leaves of wild petunias.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🧱wings as wide as 2 toy building bricks⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 24 seconds
How big is Lurcher compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Lurcher about 16 km/h (9.9 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its wingspan is around 7 centimetres.
2
Its caterpillars feed on wild petunias and a close relative of theirs.
3
It belongs to the brush-footed butterflies, a huge family that walks on only four of its six legs.
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Most asked questions about Lurcher
?Where does the lurcher live?
In northern Australasia, which includes northern Australia, and in Southeast Asia.
?What do lurcher caterpillars eat?
The leaves of wild petunias and similar plants.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Yoma sabina
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania, Asia
- Also known as
- Australian lurcher
Where the facts come from
- Yoma sabina (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 Whotheheckareyou from Australia. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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