Berger's clouded yellow
Berger's clouded yellow is a pale butterfly with a dark edge on its wings. The boys are lemon yellow and the girls are greenish white. It likes warm, sunny grasslands and stays away from cold, rainy places.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
It looks almost exactly like its cousin, the pale clouded yellow. Even experts can hardly tell the butterflies apart.
The caterpillars are easy to tell apart: this one has four yellow lines with black dots.
The boy has an orange spot on each back wing. The spot can look like the number eight.
It can have two or three families of babies in one summer.
Sometimes a lost one flies all the way to southern England or Denmark.
Most asked questions about Berger's clouded yellow
?How can you tell Berger's clouded yellow from the pale clouded yellow?
The butterflies look almost the same. Only the caterpillars are clearly different.
?What does Berger's clouded yellow eat?
The butterflies drink flower nectar and the caterpillars eat vetch plants.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Colias alfacariensis
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Colias alfacariensis (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 Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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