Sleepy orange
The sleepy orange is a bright orange butterfly with wide black edges on its wings. It is not sleepy at all. When something disturbs it, it zooms away very fast.
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Fun facts
Its name comes from a small black mark on the front wing that looks like a closed eye.
Summer butterflies are bright yellow underneath, while winter ones are browner.
Its chrysalis can be green or almost black, and that has nothing to do with the colour of the butterfly.
Males gather in big groups on wet mud to sip water and salts.
Some of them even reached Hawaii and live there now.
Most asked questions about Sleepy orange
?Why is it called the sleepy orange?
Because of a little black mark on its wing that looks like a closed eye, not because it is lazy.
?What does the sleepy orange eat?
Adults drink flower nectar. The caterpillars eat leaves of pea family plants.
?How big is the sleepy orange?
Its wings are about 3.5 to 5 centimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Eurema nicippe
- Named by
- Cramer, 1779
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Eurema nicippe (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 Joe Mabel. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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