Metallic cerulean
The metallic cerulean is a small butterfly with milky white wings tinted pale lavender-blue. Underneath, its wings are soft pinkish grey with faint white lines. It lives in warm, green places in southern Asia.
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Fun facts
Its caterpillars eat the plants that give us cardamom, ginger and turmeric.
Ants stay with its caterpillars and look after them.
Near the back corner of each hind wing it has a little brown spot touched with red.
There are about 20 different kinds of it, living on different islands and in different countries.
Most asked questions about Metallic cerulean
?What does the metallic cerulean eat?
The caterpillars eat spice plants like cardamom, ginger and turmeric, and the grown-ups drink nectar.
?Where does the metallic cerulean live?
In southern and South-East Asia, from India and Sri Lanka to Taiwan, the Philippines and Sulawesi.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Jamides alecto
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Jamides alecto (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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