Common beak
The common beak is a brown butterfly with orange-yellow stripes and patches, and small white spots near its wing tips. Its underside can be plain brown or grey, and every butterfly looks a little different there.
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Fun facts
Scientists used to think it was just a kind of the European beak butterfly. Now it counts as its own species.
Its caterpillars feed on hackberry trees, which belong to the same plant family as hops.
It lives in a long stretch of Asia, from southern India and the Himalayas all the way to Japan.
On the underside, some have no markings at all, while others have dark and light bands.
Most asked questions about Common beak
?Where does the common beak live?
In Asia, from southern India and the Himalayas to China and Japan.
?What does the common beak eat?
Its caterpillars eat the leaves of hackberry and Trema trees. The grown-ups drink nectar.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Libythea lepita
- Named by
- Moore
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Libythea lepita (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 KENPEI. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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