The hermit
The hermit is a dark brown butterfly with a band of white spots across its wings and a dark eyespot near each front wing tip. It loves dry, sunny, grassy places, and likes to rest on bare ground and on big stones.
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Fun facts
It lives high up, between about 500 and 2,500 metres above the sea.
When it rests, it keeps its wings tightly closed.
The small northern ones fly low with a hopping flight, while the big ones from Africa and Asia float along quite fast.
It comes in many sizes and patterns. Some have yellowish bands instead of white ones.
You can see the butterflies from July to September.
Most asked questions about The hermit
?Where does the hermit butterfly live?
In North Africa, southern Europe and much of Asia, in dry, grassy places.
?What does the hermit caterpillar eat?
Grasses of many kinds.
?How big is the hermit butterfly?
Its wings are 4.5 to 6 centimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Chazara briseis
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Africa, Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Chazara briseis (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 Lfavretto. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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