Yellow angled-sulphur
Anteos maerula
The yellow angled-sulphur is a big yellow butterfly with pointy, angled wings. It belongs to the family of whites and sulphurs. It lives in the warm lands between Peru and Mexico.
Lives in
From Peru to Mexico, sometimes flying north into the southern United States
Wingspan
8.2 to 12 cm (3.2 to 4.6 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Butterflies cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
The grown-up butterfly sips nectar from flowers. Its caterpillars eat the leaves of Cassia plants.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
✋wings as wide as your hand⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 18 seconds
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How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Yellow angled-sulphur about 21 km/h (13 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its open wings can measure almost 12 centimetres from tip to tip, which is big for a yellow butterfly.
2
Now and then some fly far north and turn up in Texas, Florida or even Nebraska.
3
Its caterpillars eat Cassia plants.
you asked
Most asked questions about Yellow angled-sulphur
?Where does the yellow angled-sulphur live?
From Peru to Mexico. Sometimes travellers reach the southern United States.
?How big is the yellow angled-sulphur?
Its wings measure about 8 to 12 centimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anteos maerula
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- South America, North America
- Also known as
- Angled sulphur
Where the facts come from
- Anteos maerula (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 Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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