Eastern gemmed-satyr
Cyllopsis gemma
The eastern gemmed-satyr is a small brown butterfly from the southeast of the United States and northeast Mexico. In the warm south it can be seen flying in every month of the year. Its caterpillar most likely grows up on grass.
Lives in
Southeastern United States and northeastern Mexico, in grassy places
Wingspan
3.5 to 4.3 cm (1.4 to 1.7 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillar probably eats Bermuda grass. The grown-up butterfly drinks through a long, rolled-up tongue.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 7 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 29 seconds
How big is Eastern gemmed-satyr compared to YOU?
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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)
Eastern gemmed-satyr about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
With open wings it is about 3.5 to 4.3 centimetres across.
2
In the north of its home it flies from April to September, but in the south it flies all year.
3
There are two slightly different kinds of it.
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Most asked questions about Eastern gemmed-satyr
?Where does the eastern gemmed-satyr live?
In the southeastern United States and northeastern Mexico.
?What does the gemmed-satyr caterpillar eat?
Scientists think it eats Bermuda grass, a common grass in lawns and fields.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cyllopsis gemma
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Gemmed satyr
Where the facts come from
- Cyllopsis gemma (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 Anne Toal. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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