Orange migrant
The orange migrant is a bright butterfly from South East Asia and Australia. The male has white front wings with black edges and sunny yellow back wings. Its whole life from egg to butterfly can take only about three weeks.
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Fun facts
Its eggs are milky white and shaped like tiny spindles. The mother lays them one by one on leaves.
The eggs hatch after only one or two days, and the caterpillar is fully grown after less than two weeks.
The full-grown caterpillar is about 4 centimetres long, green and smooth, with a white line along its side.
The chrysalis hangs upright on the plant, and after seven days a butterfly climbs out.
It was found in Sri Lanka only recently, far from the rest of its home.
Most asked questions about Orange migrant
?What does the orange migrant eat?
The butterfly drinks nectar. Its caterpillar eats the leaves of Senna and Cassia plants.
?Where does the orange migrant live?
From Myanmar and Thailand across Malaysia and Indonesia to northern Australia, and now also in Sri Lanka.
?How big is the orange migrant?
Its open wings measure about 6 to 6.5 centimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Catopsilia scylla
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1763
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Orange emigrant
Where the facts come from
- Catopsilia scylla (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 Atylotus. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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