Phaon crescent
Phyciodes phaon
The Phaon crescent is a small butterfly from the warm south of North America. It lives in open sunny places near its favourite plant, fogfruit. In Florida you can see it nearly all year round.
Lives in
Florida and the southern United States to New Mexico, Cuba and the Cayman Islands
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
The butterflies visit flowers. Its caterpillars eat fogfruit, a low creeping plant.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Phaon crescent about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Males fly around open areas looking for females.
2
The mother lays her eggs in groups on the underside of fogfruit leaves.
3
In the Cayman Islands it is called the crescent spot.
you asked
Most asked questions about Phaon crescent
?Where does the Phaon crescent live?
In Florida and the southern United States, and on Cuba and the Cayman Islands.
?What does the Phaon crescent caterpillar eat?
It eats fogfruit, a low creeping plant.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Phyciodes phaon
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Mat plant crescent, Crescent spot
Where the facts come from
- Phyciodes phaon (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 Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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