Spotless grass yellow
The spotless grass yellow is a small pale yellow butterfly with a black edge on its front wings. Underneath, its wings are plain yellow with almost no spots, which is how it got its name. It looks a little different in the rainy season than in the dry season.
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Fun facts
The boy has a hidden salmon pink patch of scales on his wings that the girl does not have.
In the dry season the black border on its wings gets thinner and more broken.
It belongs to the family of the whites and yellows, together with cabbage whites and brimstones.
Most asked questions about Spotless grass yellow
?Where does the spotless grass yellow live?
From India and Sri Lanka through China and Japan to Australia.
?Why is it called spotless?
Because the underside of its wings is plain yellow with hardly any spots.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Eurema laeta
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Eurema laeta (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 Jeevan Jose, Kerala, India. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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