Lemon pansy
The lemon pansy is a brown butterfly with lots of eyespots and bright lemon yellow spots. It loves to sit low on the ground with its wings open to the sun. It looks different in the wet season and the dry season.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
In the dry season its colours are pale and its wing edges are jagged, so it hides well among dry leaves.
If you disturb its caterpillar, it rolls up and drops to the ground.
Its caterpillar is black with a blue shine and a bright orange ring behind its head.
After flying off, it often comes back to land in the very same spot.
Most asked questions about Lemon pansy
?Where does the lemon pansy live?
In South Asia and Cambodia, in gardens and open woods.
?What does the lemon pansy eat?
Its caterpillars eat leaves of many low growing plants.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Junonia lemonias
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Junonia lemonias (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 Vinayaraj. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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