Provence orange tip
The Provence orange tip is a butterfly with bright orange tips on its front wings. The boy is yellow and the girl is white, so they look quite different. It lives in Spain, Portugal, southern France and a little bit of Italy.
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Fun facts
Both the boy and the girl have a thin black band next to the orange tips.
Underneath, its back wings are marked with green.
Its caterpillar is greenish with yellow and black markings, white stripes on its sides and big black dots.
Its caterpillar is known as a cannibal caterpillar, which means it sometimes eats other caterpillars.
Its chrysalis is light brown or green and very strongly bent.
Most asked questions about Provence orange tip
?How can you tell a boy from a girl?
The boy is yellow and the girl is white. Both have orange wing tips.
?Where does the Provence orange tip live?
In Spain and Portugal, in southern France and in one area of Italy. It has also been seen a few times in Switzerland.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anthocharis euphenoides
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Anthocharis euphenoides (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 Sarefo. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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