Orange albatross
Appias nero
The orange albatross is a butterfly from the family of whites and yellows. It lives in warm parts of southern Asia, from India to the islands of Indonesia and the Philippines. It is a common butterfly where it lives.
Lives in
From northern India to the Sunda Islands, the Philippines, Sulawesi and further east
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other butterflies, the grown-ups sip nectar from flowers.
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)
Orange albatross about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It shares its name with the albatross, a huge sea bird, but it is a butterfly.
2
It is common, so it is not in danger.
3
One local kind of it lives in India.
you asked
Most asked questions about Orange albatross
?Where does the orange albatross live?
In southern and south-eastern Asia, from northern India to the Philippines and Sulawesi.
?Is the orange albatross rare?
No. It is a common butterfly.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Appias nero
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Appias nero (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 Cheongweei Gan. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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