Water snow flat
Tagiades litigiosa
The water snow flat is a skipper, a small, quick butterfly. Its front wings are black with little see-through spots, and its back wings have a big white patch, like a patch of snow. It rests with its wings spread out flat.
Lives in
India, Sri Lanka and Myanmar
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Butterflies cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other skippers, the butterfly drinks flower nectar. Its caterpillars eat the leaves of yam vines and of greenbrier plants.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
Water snow flat about 30 km/h (19 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
The spots on its front wings are partly see-through, like tiny windows.
2
The female looks like the male, but her spots are bigger.
3
It looks a lot like its cousin, the spotted snow flat, but its white patch is usually smaller.
you asked
Most asked questions about Water snow flat
?What does the water snow flat eat?
The butterfly drinks nectar. The caterpillar eats the leaves of yam vines and greenbrier.
?Where does the water snow flat live?
In India, Sri Lanka and Myanmar.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Tagiades litigiosa
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Tagiades litigiosa (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 Anitava Roy. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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