Common duffer
The common duffer is a brown butterfly from Southeast Asia. The male is dark brown with rows of bluish spots, and the female is purplish brown with white spots. Underneath it is a dull brown, like a dry leaf.
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Fun facts
During the day the caterpillar hides inside three or four bamboo leaves that it ties together with silk.
A fully grown caterpillar is about 5 centimetres long, black and grey, and covered in white hairs.
The pupa is white and hangs by its tail. A few hours before the butterfly comes out, it turns dark brown.
The butterfly stays inside its pupa for about three weeks.
Most asked questions about Common duffer
?What does the common duffer caterpillar eat?
Bamboo leaves. It also hides in them during the day.
?Where does the common duffer live?
In Southeast Asia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Discophora sondaica
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Discophora sondaica (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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