Barred yellow
The barred yellow is a small yellow butterfly from the warm parts of the Americas. It flutters low over fields and visits many flowers. Some of them need its help to make seeds.
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Fun facts
It is the main pollinator of a plant called Cnidoscolus urens. Without the butterfly, that plant would make far fewer seeds.
In the warm south it flies all year round.
Some butterflies wander very far north, all the way to South Dakota and Washington, D.C.
Scientists know six different subspecies, from the West Indies to French Guiana.
Most asked questions about Barred yellow
?What does the barred yellow eat?
The butterfly drinks nectar. The caterpillars eat plants of the pea family.
?How big is the barred yellow?
Its wings measure about 3 to 4 centimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Eurema daira
- Named by
- Godart, 1819
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Fairy yellow, Barred sulphur
Where the facts come from
- Eurema daira (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 Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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