Crimson patch
The crimson patch is a black butterfly with rows of little white spots and a bright orange-red patch on each back wing. It flutters along forest edges, fields and streams. Its caterpillars are covered in rows of soft black spines.
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Fun facts
In warm tropical places it has young all year round.
In the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, cold snaps can wipe them out, and then new ones fly in from Mexico.
A look-alike, the rosita patch, has no white spots along its wing edges.
Its caterpillars are grey-white to green.
Most asked questions about Crimson patch
?Where does the crimson patch live?
From Colombia through Central America and Mexico to southern Texas.
?How big is the crimson patch?
Its wings measure about 5 to 7 centimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Chlosyne janais
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Janais patch
Where the facts come from
- Chlosyne janais (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 Pavel Kirillov from St.Petersburg, Russia. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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