Large ringlet
The large ringlet is a dark brown mountain butterfly with an orange band on its wings. In the orange band sit little black eye spots, like rings. It flies in sunny clearings of spruce forests and mountain meadows.
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Fun facts
It takes two years to grow up. It spends the first winter as an egg and the second as a caterpillar.
Its eggs are pearly grey.
It lives high up, from 500 to 2,600 metres above the sea.
Its wing edges have a checkered fringe, like a tiny chessboard.
Most asked questions about Large ringlet
?Where does the large ringlet live?
In mountain forests and meadows in Europe.
?What does the large ringlet eat?
The butterflies drink nectar from flowers, and the caterpillars eat grasses.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Erebia euryale
- Named by
- Esper, 1805
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Erebia euryale (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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