Appalachian brown
Lethe appalachia
The Appalachian brown is a soft brown butterfly from North America. It belongs to the brush-footed butterflies, which seem to walk on only four legs because their front pair is small. Its caterpillars live on sedges, grass-like plants of wet places.
Lives in
North America, where sedges grow in wet places
Wingspan
3.9 to 5.1 cm (1.5 to 2 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat sedges, plants that look like grass and grow in wet places.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🧱wings as wide as 1.5 toy building bricks⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 27 seconds
How big is Appalachian brown compared to YOU?
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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)
Appalachian brown about 14 km/h (8.7 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its wings measure about 4 to 5 centimetres from tip to tip.
2
It has a very similar cousin called the eyed brown.
3
It was named by the scientist R. Chermock in 1947.
you asked
Most asked questions about Appalachian brown
?What does the Appalachian brown eat?
Its caterpillars eat sedges.
?Where does the Appalachian brown live?
In North America.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lethe appalachia
- Named by
- R. Chermock, 1947
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Appalachian eyed brown
Where the facts come from
- Lethe appalachia (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 Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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