Lesbia clouded yellow
The Lesbia clouded yellow is a bright butterfly from South America. The male is dark orange-yellow with a black-brown edge, and some shine with a violet glow. The females come in many colours, from orange and yellow to white and even greenish grey.
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Fun facts
It flies from November to January, which is summer in the south of South America.
Some kinds live very high in the Andes mountains, between 4,000 and 5,500 metres up.
Butterflies from south Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina look so alike that you cannot tell them apart.
Underneath, most of its wings are bright yellow.
Most asked questions about Lesbia clouded yellow
?Where does the Lesbia clouded yellow live?
In South America, from Colombia and Ecuador all the way down to Tierra del Fuego.
?What colour is the Lesbia clouded yellow?
Males are orange-yellow. Females can be orange, yellow, white or greenish grey.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Colias lesbia
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- South America
Where the facts come from
- Colias lesbia (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 Holger Braun. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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