Cloudless sulphur
The cloudless sulphur is a bright yellow butterfly, as yellow as a lemon. It flutters over gardens, fields and beaches. The female can also be golden or white, with little black spots near the edges of her wings.
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Fun facts
Its egg is shaped like a little jug. It starts out white and turns pale orange before it hatches six days later.
The caterpillar is yellow or green with stripes on its sides and rows of black dots on its back.
Its chrysalis is pointed at both ends with a hump in the middle.
The caterpillar grows to about 4 centimetres long before it turns into a chrysalis.
Where it is warm all year, these butterflies can breed in every season.
Most asked questions about Cloudless sulphur
?What does the cloudless sulphur eat?
The butterfly drinks nectar from flowers. The caterpillar eats leaves of senna, clover and other pea plants.
?How big is the cloudless sulphur?
Its wings are about 5 to 7 centimetres from tip to tip.
?How can you tell a male from a female?
The male is clear yellow. The female can be lemon yellow, golden or white, and has black spots near her wing edges.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Phoebis sennae
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
Where the facts come from
- Phoebis sennae (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 round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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