Esper's marbled white
Esper's marbled white is a butterfly with a black and white chessboard pattern on its wings. It flies over dry, rocky grasslands in summer. Its caterpillars spend the winter asleep and then keep growing in spring.
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Fun facts
It flies from June to August, but most of all in July.
There is just one family of new butterflies each year.
It likes rocky places in the steppe, a wide open grassland.
The butterflies in different places have more or less black on their wings.
Most asked questions about Esper's marbled white
?Where does Esper's marbled white live?
In southern and eastern Europe and into western Asia, on dry rocky grassland.
?What does Esper's marbled white look like?
It has a black and white checked pattern on its wings, like marble.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Melanargia russiae
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Melanargia russiae (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 Notafly. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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