Marbled fritillary
The marbled fritillary is a bright orange butterfly with black spots and rather round wings. Underneath, its back wings are washed with purple in a swirly pattern, like marble. It flutters along sunny forest edges.
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Fun facts
The tiny caterpillar spends the whole winter inside its egg shell.
The female lays her eggs one by one on leaves in July.
Its chrysalis has two rows of little thorns with bright spots and a shiny metal look.
It looks almost like the lesser marbled fritillary, which is a bit smaller.
Most asked questions about Marbled fritillary
?Why is it called the marbled fritillary?
The underside of its back wings has a swirly purple pattern that looks like marble.
?What does the marbled fritillary eat?
The butterfly drinks nectar. The caterpillars eat brambles, raspberries and meadowsweet.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Brenthis daphne
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Brenthis daphne (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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