Freija fritillary
The Freija fritillary is an orange and brown butterfly that lives in the cold far north, all the way around the top of the world. You can meet it on bogs and in the tundra. Under its back wings it has a band of shiny silver-white and silver spots.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
It takes two years to grow from an egg into a butterfly.
In Europe it lives mostly in the far north, north of the 60th line of latitude, which runs just north of Tallinn.
In North America it reaches far south along the Rocky Mountains.
Its caterpillars eat cloudberry, crowberry and other plants of bogs and tundra.
Most asked questions about Freija fritillary
?Where does the Freija fritillary live?
In the far north of Europe, Asia and North America, on bogs and tundra.
?Who is the Freija fritillary named after?
Freya, the goddess of love and war in old Norse stories.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Boloria freija
- Named by
- Thunberg, 1791
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Boloria freija (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 Svyatoslav Knyazev. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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