Blomfild's beauty
Blomfild's beauty is a bright butterfly from the warm forests of the Americas. The male is red orange and the female is brown. Both have black wing tips with three little white spots.
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Fun facts
Its caterpillar builds a little chain out of its own poop and uses it as a resting spot.
The caterpillar is black with a bright orange head and a row of strong spines along its white sides.
Males often meet in big groups on wet ground to drink water full of minerals.
Under its back wings it has wavy brown and tan patterns.
Most asked questions about Blomfild's beauty
?What does Blomfild's beauty eat?
The butterflies drink juice from rotting fruit, and the caterpillars eat leaves of plants in the nettle family.
?Is Blomfild's beauty dangerous?
No. It is a harmless butterfly.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Smyrna blomfildia
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1793
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
Where the facts come from
- Smyrna blomfildia (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 Bill Bouton. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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