West Indian mangrove buckeye
Junonia neildi
The West Indian mangrove buckeye is a butterfly from Florida, Mexico and the islands of the Caribbean. Buckeye butterflies are known for the big round eyespots on their wings.
Lives in
Florida, south Texas, Mexico and the Caribbean islands
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Butterflies cannot bite or sting. Just enjoy watching it.
What does it eat?
Like most butterflies, it drinks sweet nectar from flowers.
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)
West Indian mangrove buckeye about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Scientists used to think it was just a local kind of another buckeye butterfly. Now it counts as its own species.
2
Only three kinds of buckeye butterflies live in Florida, and this is one of them.
3
It has two subspecies, and one of them lives in south Texas.
you asked
Most asked questions about West Indian mangrove buckeye
?Where does the West Indian mangrove buckeye live?
In Florida, south Texas, Mexico and the Caribbean.
?Is the West Indian mangrove buckeye dangerous?
No. Butterflies cannot bite or sting.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Junonia neildi
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Junonia neildi (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 xpda. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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