Bamboo treebrown
The bamboo treebrown is a dark brown butterfly from Asia with a white stripe and white spots on its front wings. Underneath, its wings have a row of big black eyespots edged with shiny silver and purple lines. Its caterpillars live on bamboo.
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Fun facts
The mother lays her eggs deep inside a clump of bamboo, on hidden leaves rather than on the outside ones.
Its caterpillar is green and has one short horn sticking up from its head.
The pupa is pale green and smooth, with two sharp points at the front.
The female looks like the male, but she has a wider white band on her front wings and bigger eyespots underneath.
Most asked questions about Bamboo treebrown
?What does the bamboo treebrown eat?
Its caterpillars eat the leaves of bamboo.
?Where does the bamboo treebrown live?
In Asia. One kind lives on the Nicobar Islands, in forests and along roadsides.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lethe europa
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Lethe europa (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 Peellden. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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