Niobe fritillary
The Niobe fritillary is a bright orange-brown butterfly with black dots and stripes. Underneath, its back wings have little silvery spots that shine. It lives in sunny grassy places, even high up in the mountains.
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Fun facts
It spends the winter as a tiny caterpillar still inside its egg shell.
The caterpillars hatch in March and are fully grown by June.
The caterpillar is dark with small white spots and white thorns.
It lives from the seaside up to 2,400 metres high in the mountains.
Females are a bit bigger than males and have bolder patterns.
Most asked questions about Niobe fritillary
?When does the Niobe fritillary fly?
From May to late August, with one family each year.
?What do Niobe fritillary caterpillars eat?
Mostly violets and pansies.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Argynnis niobe
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Niobe fritillary (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 Zeynel Cebeci. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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