Blue-frosted banner
Catonephele numilia
The blue-frosted banner is a butterfly of Central and South America. It likes to fly low, close to the ground, near ripe fruit and flowers. It has lots of fun names, like stoplight catone and Grecian shoemaker.
Lives in
Most of Central and South America, from Mexico to Paraguay and Brazil
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
The adults drink juice from rotting fruit. The caterpillars eat leaves of Alchornea trees.
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)
Blue-frosted banner about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It can live for about a month as a butterfly.
2
It has several different looks in different countries, called subspecies.
3
Its caterpillars eat the leaves of Alchornea, a tree in the spurge family.
you asked
Most asked questions about Blue-frosted banner
?What does the blue-frosted banner eat?
The butterflies drink juice from rotting fruit, and the caterpillars eat Alchornea leaves.
?How long does a blue-frosted banner live?
The butterfly can live for about a month.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Catonephele numilia
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Blue-frosted catone, Grecian shoemaker, Stoplight catone
Where the facts come from
- Catonephele numilia (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 Antoine BODIN. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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