Texan crescent
Anthanassa texana
The Texan crescent is a small butterfly that loves the heat. It lives in warm, dry places, from deserts and dry gullies to roadsides and city parks. In southern Texas it flies all year round.
Lives in
From Guatemala and Mexico to the southern United States, from California to Florida
Wingspan
3.2 to 4.8 cm (1.3 to 1.9 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting people, so you can watch it up close.
What does it eat?
The butterflies drink flower nectar. The caterpillars eat leaves of low plants from the acanthus family, such as wild petunias.
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 29 seconds
How big is Texan crescent 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)
Texan crescent about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It has several families every year.
2
Some wander far north, all the way to Illinois and South Dakota.
3
A special subspecies lives in Florida and Georgia.
4
It even visits city parks.
you asked
Most asked questions about Texan crescent
?What does the Texan crescent eat?
The butterflies drink nectar and the caterpillars eat low plants like wild petunias.
?How big is the Texan crescent?
Its wingspan is about 32 to 48 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anthanassa texana
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Texan crescentspot
Where the facts come from
- Anthanassa texana (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 ALAN SCHMIERER. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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