Banded peacock
Anartia fatima
The banded peacock is a brown butterfly with a bright band across its wings. It is one of the most common butterflies in Central America. It loves sunny open places, especially near rivers.
Lives in
Southern Texas, Mexico and Central America to Panama, in sunny open places and near rivers
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
The butterfly drinks flower nectar. Its caterpillars eat plants of the acanthus family, like ruellia.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Banded peacock about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
One mother can lay several hundred eggs in just a few days.
2
Hummingbirds sometimes chase it away from flowers.
3
The boys guard a patch of plants and chase other males away from late morning to early afternoon.
4
After it comes out of its pupa, it is ready to fly in only 1 to 2 hours.
5
Its eggs hatch in five days.
you asked
Most asked questions about Banded peacock
?Where does the banded peacock live?
In southern Texas, Mexico and Central America.
?What does the banded peacock eat?
The butterfly drinks flower nectar. Its caterpillars eat plants like ruellia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anartia fatima
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Anartia fatima (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 Rhododendrites. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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