Grey pansy
Junonia atlites
The grey pansy is a pale lavender grey butterfly with wavy dark lines across its wings. Along the edges it has a row of eyespots ringed with yellow. When it sits with its wings open, it looks soft and silvery.
Lives in
South and Southeast Asia, from India to China, Indonesia and the Philippines, in wet fields and gardens
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat many plants, even rice and plants that grow in wet places.
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)
Grey pansy about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its eyespots may help scare away or confuse hungry birds.
2
In the dry season the boys have fainter eyespots.
3
The girls have darker, clearer markings than the boys.
you asked
Most asked questions about Grey pansy
?Where does the grey pansy live?
In South and Southeast Asia, from India to the Philippines.
?What does the grey pansy caterpillar eat?
Many plants, including rice and plants of wet places.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Junonia atlites
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Junonia atlites (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 Mike Dickison. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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