Black Jezebel
Delias nigrina
The black Jezebel is a butterfly from eastern Australia. It is mostly dark, as its name says. Its caterpillars grow up eating mistletoe, a plant that grows on the branches of trees.
Lives in
The east coast of Australia, from Queensland to Victoria
Wingspan
5.6 cm (2.2 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other butterflies, the adult drinks nectar. The caterpillars eat mistletoe plants.
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 27 seconds
How big is Black Jezebel compared to YOU?
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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)
Black Jezebel about 14 km/h (8.7 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
The male and the female have the same wingspan, about 56 millimetres.
2
Its caterpillars eat several different kinds of mistletoe.
3
It belongs to the whites and yellows, the same family as the cabbage white.
you asked
Most asked questions about Black Jezebel
?Where does the black Jezebel live?
Along the east coast of Australia, from Queensland through New South Wales to Victoria.
?What does the black Jezebel caterpillar eat?
Mistletoe plants that grow on trees.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Delias nigrina
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Common Jezebel
Where the facts come from
- Delias nigrina (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 Andrew Allen. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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