Blue wanderer
The blue wanderer is a butterfly with black wings covered in pale blue spots. It is a real traveller. In some years, big crowds of them fly south across Australia together.
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Fun facts
In April 1995 some of them flew all the way to New Zealand, which very rarely happens.
Adults have been seen scratching certain leaves, maybe to suck out moisture or to collect special plant chemicals.
Its caterpillar is grey with black bands and orange lines along its sides.
Many different kinds of it live on different islands across the Pacific.
Most asked questions about Blue wanderer
?Where does the blue wanderer live?
From the Philippines to Australia and many Pacific islands.
?How big is the blue wanderer?
Its wings measure about 7 centimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Tirumala hamata
- Named by
- MacLeay, 1826
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Dark tiger
Where the facts come from
- Tirumala hamata (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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