Southern white admiral
The southern white admiral is a dark butterfly with a wide white band across its wings. When the sun shines on it from the right side, its wings glow with a metallic blue shine. Underneath, its wings are red with silver and white.
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Fun facts
Its blue shine changes when you look at it from a different angle.
Its caterpillar is green with lots of little brown thorns on its back.
It can live high in the mountains, up to about 1650 metres.
Besides flowers, it also likes sweet sticky droplets left by aphids.
Most asked questions about Southern white admiral
?Where does the southern white admiral live?
In southern and central Europe and western Asia, in sunny woods and forest edges.
?What does the southern white admiral caterpillar eat?
Honeysuckle leaves.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Limenitis reducta
- Named by
- Staudinger, 1901
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Limenitis reducta (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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