Mountain clouded yellow
The mountain clouded yellow is a butterfly that lives high up in the mountains of Europe. The male is yellow, but dark scales make him look greenish. The edges of his wings, his head and his feelers are rosy pink.
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Fun facts
It lives between 900 and 2800 metres above the sea.
The female looks different from the male. She is a dull white with fewer dark marks.
On the underside of its back wing it has a pearly spot with a red ring around it.
It flies from June to August, in the short mountain summer.
One local kind of it lives far away in Kashmir, in Asia.
Most asked questions about Mountain clouded yellow
?Where does the mountain clouded yellow live?
High in the mountains of Europe, such as the Alps and the Pyrenees, between 900 and 2800 metres up.
?How big is the mountain clouded yellow?
Its open wings are about 40 to 50 millimetres across.
?What do mountain clouded yellow caterpillars eat?
Plants from the pea family.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Colias phicomone
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Colias phicomone (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 Harald Süpfle. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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