Chinese peacock swallowtail
The Chinese peacock swallowtail is a big butterfly from Asia with black wings sprinkled with shiny green and blue scales. Its back wings have tails and red eye spots. In the light it glitters like a peacock feather.
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Fun facts
Butterflies that hatch in spring are much smaller than the ones that hatch in summer.
Males gather on wet sand to drink.
It is the state butterfly of Uttarakhand in India.
Its caterpillar is green with light slanting bands.
Most asked questions about Chinese peacock swallowtail
?How big is the Chinese peacock swallowtail?
Spring butterflies are 4 to 8 centimetres wide, and summer ones can reach 12 centimetres.
?What does its caterpillar eat?
It eats the leaves of citrus trees and similar plants.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Papilio bianor
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Papilionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Papilionidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Common peacock
Where the facts come from
- Papilio bianor (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 Sandipoutsider. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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