Garden acraea
The garden acraea is a reddish butterfly from South Africa that often visits gardens. The female's front wings are almost see-through, like thin glass. It is one of the most common acraea butterflies of the Cape.
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Fun facts
It can be seen all year, but it is most common from October to April.
Its caterpillar is brown-yellow with black stripes and black spines.
Females are a bit bigger than males, with back wings that are light yellow to grey-yellow.
Its caterpillars love passion flower vines, which many people grow in gardens.
Most asked questions about Garden acraea
?What does the garden acraea caterpillar eat?
Leaves of the wild peach tree and of passion flower vines.
?Where does the garden acraea live?
In South Africa and Zimbabwe, often in gardens.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Acraea horta
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Africa
Where the facts come from
- Acraea horta (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 sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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