Ceraunus blue
Hemiargus ceraunus
The Ceraunus blue is a tiny butterfly, about as wide as a coin with its wings open. It belongs to a family of small blue butterflies. It loves warm, sunny, open places.
Lives in
Southern United States, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and South America, in open sunny places
Wingspan
2 to 3 cm (0.79 to 1.2 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
The butterfly drinks flower nectar. Its caterpillar eats the flowers and seed pods of plants in the pea family.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 5 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 34 seconds
How big is Ceraunus blue compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Ceraunus blue 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
In Texas and southern Florida you can see it flying all year round.
2
It lives in many kinds of open places, from desert scrub and sand dunes to road edges and empty lots.
3
Its caterpillars like to eat flowers and seed pods instead of leaves.
you asked
Most asked questions about Ceraunus blue
?How big is the Ceraunus blue?
Its wings are only about 2 to 3 centimetres across.
?What does the Ceraunus blue eat?
The butterfly drinks nectar. The caterpillar eats flowers and seed pods of pea family plants.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hemiargus ceraunus
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1793
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
Where the facts come from
- Hemiargus ceraunus (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 Bob Peterson from North Palm Beach, Florida, Planet Earth!. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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