Bug card No. 1655 of 4,939

Field crescent

Phyciodes pulchella

The field crescent is a small butterfly from North America. It flies in summer. Its caterpillars eat plants from the daisy family.

Lives in

North America

Wingspan

2.4 to 3.6 cm (0.94 to 1.4 in)

Top speed

about 12 km/h (7.5 mph)

Can it hurt you?

Harmless

Harmless. It does not bite or sting.

What does it eat?

The grown-ups drink from flowers. The caterpillars eat plants of the daisy family, like asters.

How big is it?

wings as wide as 6 grains of rice in a rowcould fly across a whole football pitch in 32 seconds

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A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)

Field crescent about 12 km/h (7.5 mph)

A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)

A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)

cool stuff

In Canada it flies from May to August.

There are nine different kinds of it in different places.

It has several look-alike cousins, like the pearl crescent and the northern crescent.

you asked

?What does the field crescent eat?

Its caterpillars eat plants of the daisy family. The grown-ups drink nectar.

?How big is the field crescent?

Its open wings measure about 2.4 to 3.6 cm across.

Phyciodes pulchella (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 Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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