Anna's blue
Plebejus anna
Anna's blue is a small butterfly from North America. The male is a pale, whitish blue with white outlines around its wings. The female is brown, often with orange bands near the edges.
Lives in
North America
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Butterflies cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
The grown-ups sip nectar. The caterpillars eat blueberry and other heath plants, and plants from the pea family.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Anna's blue about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Scientists used to think it was the same species as the northern blue, but now it counts as its own species.
2
It looks a lot like another butterfly, the Melissa blue.
3
It flies in summer and has only one family of babies each year.
4
Its caterpillars like to eat blueberry plants.
you asked
Most asked questions about Anna's blue
?What does Anna's blue eat?
The caterpillars eat blueberry, other heath plants and pea-family plants. The butterflies sip nectar.
?When does Anna's blue fly?
In summer. It has one brood a year.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Plebejus anna
- Named by
- W. H. Edwards, 1861
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Plebejus anna (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 xpda. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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