Balkan marbled white
The Balkan marbled white is a white butterfly with a black pattern, like a marble stone. Near its body the wings look sooty, as if it had brushed against a chimney. It flutters over dry, grassy hills in early summer.
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Fun facts
It flies from the middle of May to July, and new butterflies come out only once a year.
It lives in Greece, Bulgaria, Albania, Serbia and Croatia, and east to Iran.
Most of the places where it lives are grouped around the Black Sea.
Its caterpillars munch on a kind of wild grass.
Most asked questions about Balkan marbled white
?Where does the Balkan marbled white live?
In south-eastern Europe, Turkey and on to Iran, on dry grassy hills and in sunny woodland clearings.
?How big is the Balkan marbled white?
Its open wings are about 52 millimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Melanargia larissa
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Melanargia larissa (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 Zeynel Cebeci. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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