Garden commodore
The garden commodore is a butterfly from Africa, south of the Sahara desert. You can meet it at any time of the year. The females are a little bigger than the males.
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Fun facts
It flies all year round.
Every year there are two big families of new butterflies: one from September to March and one from April to August.
Females are bigger than males. Their open wings can be up to 6 centimetres wide.
It lives in many African countries, from Sudan and Uganda all the way down to South Africa.
Most asked questions about Garden commodore
?Where does the garden commodore live?
In Africa south of the Sahara, for example in Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
?How big is the garden commodore?
Its open wings are about 4.5 to 6 centimetres wide. The females are the bigger ones.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Precis archesia
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Africa
- Also known as
- Garden inspector
Where the facts come from
- Precis archesia (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 Diego Delso. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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