American silver-bordered fritillary
Boloria myrina
The American silver-bordered fritillary is a butterfly from North America. For a long time people thought it was the same kind as a European cousin. Then scientists studied its genes and found out it is a species of its own.
Lives in
North America
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
The grown-up butterfly drinks nectar from flowers.
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)
American silver-bordered fritillary about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Scientists used genes, the tiny instructions inside every living thing, to show it is its own species.
2
One kind of it, called the dark-bordered fritillary, lives in North America.
3
The dark-bordered fritillary is rare in Oregon, Washington and Yukon, so people keep an eye on it.
you asked
Most asked questions about American silver-bordered fritillary
?Is the American silver-bordered fritillary rare?
One kind of it, the dark-bordered fritillary, is in danger in Oregon and vulnerable in Washington and Yukon.
?Where does it live?
In North America.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Boloria myrina
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Silver-bordered fritillary
Where the facts come from
- Silver-bordered fritillary (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 Hereinthewild. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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