Lemon migrant
The lemon migrant is a medium-sized butterfly in chalky white or lemon yellow, with black edges on its front wings. It is named for its habit of flying long distances to new places.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
Some have black feelers and some have pink or red ones. Which one it gets depends on day length and temperature while it grows.
Its white eggs are shaped like tiny ribbed bottles and hatch in 3 to 4 days.
A newly hatched caterpillar is only about half a centimetre long and yellowish green.
Long ago some scientists thought its two colour forms were two different species.
Most asked questions about Lemon migrant
?Why is it called the lemon migrant?
It is often lemon yellow, and it is known for migrating, flying long distances to new places.
?What does the lemon migrant caterpillar eat?
Leaves of cassia trees and related plants.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Catopsilia pomona
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Common emigrant, Lemon emigrant
Where the facts come from
- Catopsilia pomona (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 J.M.Garg. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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