Imperial jezebel
The imperial jezebel is a white butterfly with black edges on its wings. Underneath, its wings are chequered black and white, with a yellow band and a bright red band. It lives only in Australia.
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Fun facts
Its caterpillars are black with white hairs and live together in a group.
The caterpillars spin a silk web on the mistletoe plants they eat.
It usually flies high up in eucalyptus forests.
In spring it gathers around flowering fruit trees.
Females have wider black edges on their wings than males.
Most asked questions about Imperial jezebel
?Where does the imperial jezebel live?
Only in Australia, in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.
?What do imperial jezebel caterpillars eat?
They eat mistletoe plants and spin a silk web on them.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Delias harpalyce
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Imperial white
Where the facts come from
- Delias harpalyce (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 Neil Hamilton Mansfield. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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