Broad-bordered grass yellow
Eurema brigitta
The broad-bordered grass yellow is a small, bright yellow butterfly with a black border on its wings. Its wing edges have a pretty rosy-red fringe. It flutters low over grassy places in warm countries.
Lives in
Africa, India and other parts of Asia, and Australia
Wingspan
3 to 3.5 cm (1.2 to 1.4 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat small plants like St John's wort and a kind of partridge pea.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 6 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 34 seconds
How big is Broad-bordered grass yellow compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Broad-bordered grass yellow about 11 km/h (6.8 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It looks different in the wet season and the dry season. Dry-season butterflies are much smaller.
2
You can see it flying all year round.
3
In 2022 scientists studied its genes and decided the Asian and Australian ones are really a separate species.
you asked
Most asked questions about Broad-bordered grass yellow
?What does the broad-bordered grass yellow eat?
Its caterpillars eat small plants like St John's wort.
?How big is the broad-bordered grass yellow?
Its wings are about 3 to 3.5 centimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Eurema brigitta
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Small grass yellow
Where the facts come from
- Eurema brigitta (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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