South American tropical buckeye
The South American tropical buckeye is a brown butterfly with big round eye spots on its wings. The eye spots may help scare off hungry birds. It flies very fast and low over sunny open fields.
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Fun facts
Males sit on plants or on the ground waiting for females, sometimes all day long.
The mother lays her eggs one by one under the leaves.
It is very easy to mix up with its cousin, the mangrove buckeye.
It lives in many places, from scrub and forests to towns and islands.
Most asked questions about South American tropical buckeye
?Why does the tropical buckeye have eye spots?
Eye spots like these can make birds think twice before attacking.
?How big is the South American tropical buckeye?
Its wings measure about 4.5 to 6.5 centimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Junonia evarete
- Named by
- Cramer, 1779
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- South America
- Also known as
- Tropical buckeye
Where the facts come from
- Junonia evarete (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 Didier Descouens. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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