Little yellow
The little yellow is a small, bright yellow butterfly with a dark border on its front wings. It flutters low over old fields and open places. Some females are white instead of yellow.
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Fun facts
Males reflect ultraviolet light, a colour that people cannot see but other butterflies can.
In the south there can be up to five families a year.
In summer some fly far north, even as far as Quebec in Canada.
On warm days the males fly up and down looking for females.
Most asked questions about Little yellow
?What does the little yellow eat?
The butterfly drinks nectar from asters. The caterpillar eats plants of the pea family.
?Where can you see a little yellow?
In open fields in the southern USA, Central America and the Caribbean.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Eurema lisa
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Little sulphur, Little sulfur
Where the facts come from
- Eurema lisa (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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