Pacific fritillary
Boloria epithore
The Pacific fritillary is an orange and black butterfly from western North America. It belongs to the brush-footed butterflies, a big family with many bright butterflies. It flies in early summer, in June and July.
Lives in
Western North America, from California to British Columbia and Alberta
Wingspan
3.4 to 4.4 cm (1.3 to 1.7 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It is a gentle butterfly.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat the leaves of a violet plant.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 7 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 29 seconds
How big is Pacific fritillary compared to YOU?
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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)
Pacific fritillary about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its wings measure 34 to 44 millimetres from tip to tip.
2
The grown-up butterflies fly only in June and July.
3
There are four slightly different kinds of it, living in different places like Oregon, California and British Columbia.
you asked
Most asked questions about Pacific fritillary
?What does the Pacific fritillary caterpillar eat?
The leaves of a kind of violet.
?How big is the Pacific fritillary?
Its wingspan is about 34 to 44 millimetres, a bit smaller than a small cookie.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Boloria epithore
- Named by
- Edwards, 1864
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Boloria epithore (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 Walter Siegmund (talk). CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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