Chocolate pansy
The chocolate pansy is a butterfly the colour of milk chocolate, with darker brown bands and small eyespots. It likes to fly low near the ground and sit with its wings open in the sunshine.
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Fun facts
Each butterfly guards its own little patch of land, called a territory.
The mother often lays her eggs on the ground or on dry twigs near the food plants, not on the plants themselves.
When the caterpillars hatch, they have to find their own way to the plants they eat.
Its wings look a bit different in the wet season than in the dry season.
Most asked questions about Chocolate pansy
?Where does the chocolate pansy live?
In Asia, usually close to the ground in sunny spots.
?How big is the chocolate pansy?
Its wings measure about 5 to 6 centimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Junonia iphita
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Chocolate soldier
Where the facts come from
- Junonia iphita (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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