White peacock
The white peacock is a pale, whitish butterfly with little dark eyespots on its wings, a bit like the spots on a peacock's tail. It lives in warm parts of the Americas. The boys are brave little guards of their own patch of land.
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Fun facts
A boy picks a patch about 15 metres wide where its caterpillar food plants grow.
He sits in his patch and chases away other insects and other boy butterflies.
There are seven different kinds, living in places like Florida, Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Brazil.
Most asked questions about White peacock
?Where does the white peacock butterfly live?
In the southeastern United States, Central America and much of South America.
?What does the white peacock caterpillar eat?
Low plants like water hyssop, frogfruit and Carolina wild petunia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anartia jatrophae
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
Where the facts come from
- Anartia jatrophae (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 Greg Hume. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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