Yellow orange tip
The yellow orange tip is a bright butterfly from South and Southeast Asia. The male is deep sulphur yellow, with a black wing tip that holds a big orange patch. The female is white with a hint of yellow.
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Fun facts
Butterflies that hatch in the rainy season look a little different from those of the dry season, with wider black edges.
It can be seen all year round.
It is most common during and just after the monsoon rains, and rare in the hot summer.
Most asked questions about Yellow orange tip
?Where does the yellow orange tip live?
In Sri Lanka, India and Southeast Asia, in dry forests, scrub and fallow fields.
?How big is the yellow orange tip?
Its wings measure about 50 to 55 millimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Ixias pyrene
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Ixias pyrene (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 Santosh namby at en.wikipedia. CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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