Olympia marble
The Olympia marble is a butterfly from North America that flies once a year. Its caterpillars grow up on plants of the mustard family. The males fly up to hilltops and patrol there, looking for females.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
The female lays her eggs one at a time on flower buds.
Young caterpillars eat flowers and fruits, while older ones eat the leaves.
It likes to keep going back to the same kinds of flowers for nectar.
In the areas where it was counted, there were 75 percent fewer of them in 2020 than in 2000.
Most asked questions about Olympia marble
?Where does the Olympia marble live?
In southern Canada and the middle and southwest of the United States, in prairies and dry clearings.
?What does the Olympia marble eat?
The butterflies drink nectar. The caterpillars eat plants of the mustard family.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Euchloe olympia
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Euchloe olympia (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 khteWisconsin. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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