Eastern festoon
The eastern festoon is a pale yellow butterfly covered in black spots, with little red marks on its back wings. It is one of the first butterflies to fly on the warm days of spring.
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Fun facts
Its back wing has one strongly pointed tooth on the edge.
The females can look very different from each other. Some are white, some bright yellow and some very heavily spotted.
Its caterpillar is yellow, brown or reddish with red bumps.
Its chrysalis is greyish yellow with thin black dashes.
It flies from March to July, depending on where it lives.
Most asked questions about Eastern festoon
?Where does the eastern festoon live?
From the Balkans to Turkey and the Middle East, at rocky places and the edges of woods.
?What does the eastern festoon eat?
Its caterpillars eat birthwort plants.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Zerynthia cerisy
- Named by
- Godart, 1824
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Papilionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Papilionidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Allancastria cerisyi (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 Frank Vassen from Brussels, Belgium. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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