Danube clouded yellow
The Danube clouded yellow is a bright orange-yellow butterfly with dark edges on its wings. The girls can be orange-yellow too, or almost greenish white.
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Fun facts
If the soil is too rich, its food plants take up too much nitrogen and the caterpillars die. So it needs poor, unfertilised meadows.
It has two families a year. One flies in May, and the next from July to August.
Butterflies of the second family are often a little bigger than the first ones.
Under its back wing there is a small red spot.
Most asked questions about Danube clouded yellow
?Where does the Danube clouded yellow live?
In eastern Europe and western Asia, from Germany and Austria to Ukraine and southern Russia.
?What does the Danube clouded yellow eat?
The butterfly drinks flower nectar, and its caterpillars eat the leaves of broom bushes.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Colias myrmidone
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Colias myrmidone (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 Tom Nygaard Kristensen. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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