Lantana scrub-hairstreak
The lantana scrub-hairstreak is a small butterfly with shiny brown wings, sprinkled with specks of blue. It has grey eyes. Males have white lines across their wings, and females do not.
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Fun facts
In 1902 people brought it to Hawaii, hoping its caterpillars would eat up the lantana plants there. It did not work.
It flies from May to December and has two or three families of babies every year.
From egg to the start of the chrysalis takes about 31 days.
When the chrysalis gets dark brown, the butterfly is almost ready to come out.
Most asked questions about Lantana scrub-hairstreak
?What does the lantana scrub-hairstreak eat?
The caterpillars eat lantana, basil and Lippia plants. The butterflies drink nectar from flowers.
?Why was it taken to Hawaii?
People hoped it would eat the lantana plants there, but it did not help much.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Strymon bazochii
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae
- Lives on
- South America, North America, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Smaller lantana butterfly
Where the facts come from
- Strymon bazochii (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 ALAN SCHMIERER. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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