Peacock pansy
The peacock pansy is a bright orange yellow butterfly with big eyespots, like the eyes on a peacock's tail. The biggest eyespot on its back wing is yellow, brown and blue black. It has a different look in the dry season and in the wet season.
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Fun facts
In the dry season its underside has few markings, so it looks like a dry leaf.
In the wet season it has extra eyespots and lines underneath.
Its caterpillar is covered in rows of short spines with tiny branches.
Most asked questions about Peacock pansy
?Why is it called the peacock pansy?
Because of its big eyespots, which look like the eyes on a peacock's feathers.
?How big is the peacock pansy?
Its wings are about 5 to 6 centimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Junonia almana
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Junonia almana (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 Rivugayen. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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