Dark grass blue
Zizeeria karsandra
The dark grass blue is a small butterfly. On top its wings are purple brown. Underneath they are grey brown with little black dots, each one ringed in white.
Lives in
From the southern Mediterranean across Arabia and India to Southeast Asia and Australia, in grassy places
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Butterflies cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
The grown-up butterfly sips sweet nectar. Its caterpillars eat plants such as clover, alfalfa and amaranth.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Dark grass blue about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It lives in a very long strip of the world, from the Mediterranean all the way to New Guinea and Australia.
2
Its caterpillars can eat clover and alfalfa, plants that farm animals also eat.
3
It belongs to the blues, a big family of small butterflies.
you asked
Most asked questions about Dark grass blue
?What does the dark grass blue eat?
The butterfly drinks nectar. The caterpillars eat plants like clover, alfalfa and amaranth.
?Where does the dark grass blue live?
From the southern Mediterranean through Arabia, India and Southeast Asia to northern and eastern Australia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Zizeeria karsandra
- Named by
- Moore, 1865
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae
- Lives on
- Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Zizeeria karsandra (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 Zeynel Cebeci. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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