Jewelled grass-blue
Freyeria putli
The jewelled grass-blue is a tiny butterfly with violet-brown wings. Under its back wings it has a row of black spots that sparkle with metallic green, like little jewels. That is how it got its name.
Lives in
Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar, the Maldives and Australia
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other small blue butterflies, the grown-ups sip nectar from flowers.
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)
Jewelled grass-blue 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 belongs to the blues, a big family of small butterflies.
2
Each jewel spot on the underside is ringed with yellow and has wavy white lines above it.
3
The female looks like the male, but her markings underneath are a bit clearer.
you asked
Most asked questions about Jewelled grass-blue
?Why is it called a grass jewel?
Because the spots under its wings shine with metallic green, like tiny jewels.
?Where does the jewelled grass-blue live?
In South Asia, Myanmar and Australia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Freyeria putli
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Eastern grass jewel, Small grass jewel, Oriental grass jewel
Where the facts come from
- Freyeria putli (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 Uajith. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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