Common jezebel
The common jezebel looks plain white from above. But when it closes its wings, the underside shines bright yellow with a row of red spots. Those bright colours tell birds that it tastes really bad.
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Fun facts
Its caterpillars eat poisonous plants and keep the poison inside, so the butterfly tastes horrible to birds.
Another butterfly, the painted sawtooth, copies its colours so that birds leave it alone too.
The mother lays twenty or thirty eggs on one leaf, in neat rows.
The baby caterpillars eat their eggshell first, then munch leaves side by side as a group.
If you shake its tree, the caterpillar drops down and hangs from a silk thread.
Most asked questions about Common jezebel
?Is the common jezebel poisonous?
It is poisonous to eat, which keeps birds away. Touching it does not hurt you.
?What does a common jezebel eat?
The butterfly drinks nectar from flowers, and its caterpillars eat mistletoe leaves.
?How big is a common jezebel?
Its wings measure 6,5 to 8,5 centimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Delias eucharis
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Delias eucharis (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 Mitsingh. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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