Scarlet Jezebel
The scarlet Jezebel is a medium-sized butterfly from Australia and New Guinea. It belongs to the family of whites and yellows. Under its back wings it has bright red spots, which shine through to the top side in a soft pink.
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Fun facts
Its caterpillars eat mistletoe, a plant that grows on the branches of trees.
The red spots on the underside of the male's back wings show through on top in a rosy pink.
Females come in two looks. Some are all light yellow on top, others have the back half of the hindwing black.
It belongs to the same family as the cabbage white and other whites and yellows.
Most asked questions about Scarlet Jezebel
?What does the scarlet Jezebel eat?
The butterfly drinks nectar. Its caterpillars eat mistletoe that grows on trees.
?Where does the scarlet Jezebel live?
In Australia and New Guinea.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Delias argenthona
- Named by
- Fabricius
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Northern Jezebel
Where the facts come from
- Delias argenthona (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 division, CSIRO. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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