Pallas's fritillary
Argynnis laodice
Pallas's fritillary is a bright orange-yellow butterfly covered in neat rows of round black dots. It lives in damp places near forests, from northern Europe all the way to Japan. Its caterpillars grow up eating violets.
Lives in
From southern Scandinavia and eastern Europe across Asia to Korea and Japan, in damp forest places
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
The butterfly drinks nectar from flowers. Its caterpillar eats the leaves of violets.
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)
Pallas's fritillary about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Many fritillaries have silver spots under their wings, but this one has none.
2
The female has tiny white spots near the tip of each front wing.
3
It has only one family of young a year, and the butterflies fly in July and August.
you asked
Most asked questions about Pallas's fritillary
?What does the Pallas's fritillary caterpillar eat?
Violet leaves.
?When can you see Pallas's fritillary?
In July and August, in damp places near forests.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Argynnis laodice
- Named by
- Pallas
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Argynnis laodice (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 harum.koh from Kobe city, Japan. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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