Mimosa yellow
Eurema nise
The mimosa yellow is a small bright yellow butterfly with thin black edges on its front wings. Both males and females are yellow. It lives in warm places from Argentina up to Texas and Florida.
Lives in
From Argentina to Texas and Florida, along the edges of bushy woods
Wingspan
2.9 to 5.1 cm (1.1 to 2 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
The grown-ups drink nectar from flowers. The caterpillars eat the sensitive plant, whose leaves fold up when you touch them.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🧱wings as wide as 1.5 toy building bricks⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 27 seconds
How big is Mimosa yellow compared to YOU?
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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)
Mimosa yellow about 14 km/h (8.7 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its caterpillars eat Mimosa pudica, the famous plant that folds its leaves when touched.
2
In the tropics it can be seen flying all year round.
3
Females never have black edges on their back wings, and males rarely do.
you asked
Most asked questions about Mimosa yellow
?Why is it called the mimosa yellow?
Because it is yellow and its caterpillars eat a mimosa plant.
?Where does the mimosa yellow live?
From Argentina up to Texas and Florida, at the edges of bushy woods.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Eurema nise
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- South America, North America
Where the facts come from
- Pyrisitia nise (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 Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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