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Blue-spotted crow butterfly

Euploea midamus
Eats: Nectar and pollenButterfliesRainforests and jungles6 legs

The blue-spotted crow butterfly lives in India and Southeast Asia. It belongs to the crows and tigers, a group of butterflies that are often dark with pale spots. It flies in many countries and on many islands.

Lives in
India, Nepal and Southeast Asia, from Thailand to Singapore, Sumatra and Java
Top speed
about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
Flying, estimate
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other butterflies, the adults drink nectar from flowers.
For real!Photo of Blue-spotted crow butterfly
Picture by Charles Lam. CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How fast is it?

cool stuff

Fun facts

1

It has at least eight different forms in different places, called subspecies.

2

One kind lives on the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean.

3

Its relatives include the famous monarch butterfly.

you asked

Most asked questions about Blue-spotted crow butterfly

?Where does the blue-spotted crow butterfly live?

In India and Southeast Asia, including many islands.

?Is the blue-spotted crow a crow?

No. It is a butterfly. Crow is just the name for its group of dark butterflies.

For bug experts

Scientific name
Euploea midamus
Group
Butterflies
Family
Nymphalidae
Classification
Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
Lives on
Asia
Also known as
Blue spotted crow

Where the facts come from

  1. Euploea midamus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
  2. Picture by Charles Lam. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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