Brown grass jewel
The brown grass jewel is a tiny brown butterfly from the blues family. On the back of its wings it has a row of black spots, and some of them sparkle with shiny green scales like little jewels. That is how it got its name.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
Butterflies from dry places are much paler than ones from places with lots of rain.
Its caterpillar is grass green with a bright white line along its side, and only a little over half a centimetre long when fully grown.
Ants come to visit its caterpillar.
Its pupa is pale green and covered in long white hairs.
Most asked questions about Brown grass jewel
?Where does the grass jewel live?
In Africa, Arabia, Greece and Bulgaria, India and southern Asia.
?Why is it called a grass jewel?
It is a tiny butterfly that flies low over grass, and the spots on its wings shine with metallic green scales.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Freyeria trochylus
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae
- Lives on
- Africa, Asia, Europe
- Also known as
- Grass jewel
Where the facts come from
- Freyeria trochylus (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 Zeynel Cebeci. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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