Blue admiral
The blue admiral is a black butterfly with a bright blue band across its wings. Underneath, its wings are dark brown with fine black stripes. It is the only member of its butterfly group, Kaniska.
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Fun facts
Its wings are about 6 to 7 centimetres from tip to tip.
It guards its own little patch and chases away other butterflies that fly in.
It likes to sit on the same lookout spots and sunbathe with open wings.
Its caterpillar is orange and white with branching spines.
It lives as far north as southeastern Siberia and as far south as Indonesia.
Most asked questions about Blue admiral
?What does the blue admiral look like?
It is black with a wide blue band across its wings and a small white spot near each wing tip.
?Is the blue admiral dangerous?
No. It is a harmless butterfly.
?Where does the blue admiral live?
In South and Southeast Asia, from India to Japan and Indonesia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Kaniska canace
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1763
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Kaniska canace (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 L. Shyamal. CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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