Dainty sulphur
The dainty sulphur is a tiny yellow butterfly with black wing tips and black bars on its wings. It is the smallest butterfly of its family in North America. It flutters very low, close to the ground.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
Butterflies that grow up in winter have more dark scales, which help them soak up the warmth of the sun.
It cannot survive the cold, so it flies south for the winter.
The boys have a small orange scent patch on their back wings.
If a girl says no, the boy opens his wings wide to show off his patterns.
Its eggs are lemon yellow or orange yellow.
Most asked questions about Dainty sulphur
?How big is the dainty sulphur?
It is the smallest butterfly of the whites and yellows family in North America.
?Where does the dainty sulphur go in winter?
It moves south, because it cannot survive the cold.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Nathalis iole
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Dwarf yellow
Where the facts come from
- Nathalis iole (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 Meganmccarty. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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