Bug card No. 1912 of 4,939

Glasswing

Acraea andromacha

The glasswing is a butterfly from Australia and New Guinea. It also has a funny second name: the small greasy.

Lives in

Australia, New Guinea and nearby islands

Top speed

about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)

Can it hurt you?

Harmless

Harmless. It is a butterfly that cannot bite or sting.

What does it eat?

Like other butterflies, the grown-up drinks sweet nectar from flowers.

A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)

A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)

Glasswing about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)

A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)

cool stuff

Fun facts

It belongs to the brush-footed butterflies, a very big butterfly family.

There are three kinds of it: one in northern and eastern Australia, one in Papua New Guinea and one on islands off the southeast coast of Papua.

In Australia it lives from the north all the way down to New South Wales.

you asked

?Where does the glasswing live?

In Australia, New Guinea and the islands around them.

?Is the glasswing dangerous?

No. It is a butterfly that cannot bite or sting.

Acraea andromacha (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 Acraea_andromacha_1.jpg : Donald Hobern from Canberra, Australia derivative work: Berichard ( talk ). CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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