Angled castor
The angled castor is an orange brown butterfly with wavy lines across its wings. The edges of its wings are wavy and scalloped, and it has a white spot near each front wing tip. It lives in Asia.
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Fun facts
It got its name from the castor oil plant, which its caterpillars love to eat.
Its caterpillar is spiny, with two rows of spines along its back.
The caterpillar can be green with brown lines or dark brown with a white stripe.
Its chrysalis hangs on by its tail and can stick straight out sideways from a wall.
Most asked questions about Angled castor
?Why is it called the angled castor?
Castor comes from the castor oil plant its caterpillars eat, and angled from the sharp corners on its wavy wing edges.
?What does the angled castor eat?
Its caterpillars mostly eat castor oil plant leaves.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Ariadne ariadne
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1763
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Ariadne ariadne (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 Gopakumar V R. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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