Three-spotted grass yellow
Eurema blanda
The three-spotted grass yellow is a small lemon-yellow butterfly with black edges on its wings. Under its front wing it has three little marks, which gives it its name. It changes its look depending on the season.
Lives in
Sri Lanka, India and Southeast Asia
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Grown-up butterflies sip nectar from flowers. Its caterpillars eat leaves.
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)
Three-spotted grass yellow about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
In the rainy season it looks different from the dry season. The dry season ones are smaller.
2
Females have a wider black border on their wings than males.
3
Its eggs are pale yellow and oval, laid on leaves.
you asked
Most asked questions about Three-spotted grass yellow
?Why is it called three-spotted?
Because of the three small marks on the underside of its front wing.
?Where does the three-spotted grass yellow live?
In Sri Lanka, India and Southeast Asia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Eurema blanda
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Three-spot grass yellow
Where the facts come from
- Eurema blanda (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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