Woodland ringlet
The woodland ringlet is a dark brown butterfly with orange patches and little black eye spots with white centres. The eye spots look like tiny eyes staring back at you. It loves damp, sunny meadows and the edges of forests.
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Fun facts
The number of eye spots is different from one butterfly to the next.
The top and the underside of its wings look almost the same.
The girls are usually a bit paler than the boys.
It lives from low hills up to 2,300 metres high in the mountains.
Its caterpillar grows to about 2 centimetres long.
Most asked questions about Woodland ringlet
?What does the woodland ringlet look like?
It is dark brown with orange patches and black eye spots with white centres.
?Where does the woodland ringlet live?
In damp meadows, moors and sunny forest edges in Europe and western Asia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Erebia medusa
- Named by
- Fabricius
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Erebia medusa (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 Alastair Rae from London, United Kingdom. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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