Goatweed leafwing
Anaea andria
The goatweed leafwing is a North American butterfly from the leafwing group. Leafwings are butterflies whose folded wings look like a dry leaf. It is named after goatweed, the plant its caterpillars eat.
Lives in
North America
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting people, so you can watch it up close.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat goatweed, Texas croton and prairie tea, which are all spurge plants.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Goatweed leafwing about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
All of its caterpillars' food plants belong to the spurge family.
2
With its wings closed, it can hide on a branch like a dead leaf.
3
It has two subspecies.
you asked
Most asked questions about Goatweed leafwing
?Why is it called the goatweed leafwing?
Because its caterpillars eat goatweed, and its folded wings look like a leaf.
?Where does the goatweed leafwing live?
In North America.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anaea andria
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Goatweed butterfly
Where the facts come from
- Anaea andria (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 xpda. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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