Tailed sulphur
Phoebis neocypris
The tailed sulphur is a butterfly from Mexico, Central America and South America. As its name says, it has little tails on its wings. Only once has one been seen as far north as southern Texas.
Lives in
Mexico, Central America and South America
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
The butterfly sips nectar from flowers. Its caterpillars eat the fresh leaves of Cassia plants.
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)
Tailed sulphur about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its caterpillars eat only fresh, young leaves of Cassia plants.
2
One lost butterfly was once found in southern Texas, far from its usual home.
3
There are three kinds of it, called subspecies, living in different countries from Mexico to Brazil and Peru.
you asked
Most asked questions about Tailed sulphur
?Where does the tailed sulphur live?
In Mexico, Central America and South America.
?What does the tailed sulphur eat?
The butterfly drinks nectar. Its caterpillars eat fresh Cassia leaves.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Phoebis neocypris
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
Where the facts come from
- Phoebis neocypris (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 D. Gordon E. Robertson. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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