Green-eyed white
Leptophobia aripa
The green-eyed white is a white butterfly from Mexico, Central America and South America. As its name says, it has green eyes. It visits flowers in sunny places all year long.
Lives in
Mexico, Central America and South America
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
The butterflies drink nectar from flowers like lantana. The caterpillars eat cabbage, watercress and nasturtium.
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)
Green-eyed white about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It has many families a year, and they overlap, so you can see it flying a lot of the time.
2
It is very choosy about which plant it lays its eggs on.
3
Sometimes a lost one flies as far north as southern Texas.
you asked
Most asked questions about Green-eyed white
?What does the green-eyed white eat?
The butterflies drink nectar, and the caterpillars eat cabbage family plants.
?Where does the green-eyed white live?
In Mexico, Central America and South America.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Leptophobia aripa
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Common green-eyed white, Mountain white
Where the facts come from
- Leptophobia aripa (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 Everflowingriver. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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