Orion cecropian
Historis odius
The orion cecropian is a butterfly from America. It belongs to the same big butterfly family as the crescents and checkerspots. Like every butterfly, it starts life as a caterpillar and later grows wings.
Lives in
North America
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Watch it flutter by, but do not try to catch it, because butterfly wings are delicate.
What does it eat?
Like other butterflies, the grown-up sips sweet liquid through a long tongue that it can roll up.
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)
Orion cecropian about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Scientists sort it into three subspecies, slightly different groups of the same butterfly.
2
It belongs to the brush-footed butterfly family, one of the biggest butterfly families in the world.
3
One of its subspecies has the name orion, and that is where its common name comes from.
you asked
Most asked questions about Orion cecropian
?Where does the orion cecropian live?
It lives in North America.
?Is the orion cecropian dangerous?
No. It is a harmless butterfly.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Historis odius
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1775
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Historis odius (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 Didier Descouens. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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