Great banded grayling
The great banded grayling is a big black or dark brown butterfly with a broad white band across its wings. It likes to rest on tree trunks, head up and wings closed. Then its grey, marbled underside looks just like bark.
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Fun facts
It is the only species in its group, so it has no close sisters.
On the south coast of Europe there can be huge numbers. Once, more than 30 were counted on a single tree.
The young caterpillars sleep through the winter.
Its chrysalis just lies loose on the ground, purple brown and pointed at both ends.
Most asked questions about Great banded grayling
?How big is the great banded grayling?
Its wings measure about 6.5 to 8 centimetres from tip to tip.
?What does the great banded grayling eat?
The butterflies drink nectar, and the caterpillars eat grasses.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Brintesia circe
- Named by
- Fabricius
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Brintesia (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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