Psyche
The psyche is a small white butterfly with one big black spot on each front wing. It flutters slowly and wobbly, low over the grass, bobbing up and down with every wing beat. It almost never flies high above the ground.
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Fun facts
Someone once called it the wandering snowflake, because of the way it drifts over the grass.
Its pupa is sometimes green, but more often a soft pink.
Underneath, its wings are covered in fine greenish speckles.
Most asked questions about Psyche
?Why does the psyche butterfly fly so low?
It has a weak, wobbly flight and stays close to the grass, rarely leaving ground level.
?Where does the psyche butterfly live?
In India, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, China and Australia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Leptosia nina
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Wandering snowflake
Where the facts come from
- Leptosia nina (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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