Confusa tigerwing
The confusa tigerwing is a big butterfly with see-through wings, like windows edged in black. Its wings are crossed by black bars, and its feelers are black with yellow tips. It lives in the forests and mountains of Central and South America.
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Fun facts
Its wings are about 11 centimetres across, as wide as a big hand.
It takes about 45 days to grow from a tiny egg into a butterfly.
Its caterpillars have dark brown and yellow stripes and like to stay together in groups.
Just before the butterfly comes out, the wing pads on its pupa turn black and gold.
It lives high in the mountains too, as high as 3,500 metres in the Andes.
Most asked questions about Confusa tigerwing
?Are its wings really see-through?
Yes. Apart from the black edges and bars, its wings are clear and shiny, a bit like glass.
?Where does the confusa tigerwing live?
In Central and South America, from Panama to Argentina, including the Amazon and the Andes.
?How big is the confusa tigerwing?
Its wings measure about 11 centimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Methona confusa
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Giant glasswing
Where the facts come from
- Methona confusa (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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