Double-spotted line blue
The double-spotted line blue is a small butterfly from Australia and nearby islands. The male is blue on top with thin black edges, and the female is brown. Underneath, both are pale brown with light and dark wavy lines.
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Fun facts
With its wings open it is only about 2 centimetres across.
Its caterpillars can be pink, orange, yellow or green, depending on which plant they eat.
Ants look after its caterpillars, staying close by them on the plant.
It turns into a butterfly inside a pale brown pupa.
Most asked questions about Double-spotted line blue
?What does the double-spotted line blue eat?
Its caterpillars eat the shoots, flowers and buds of wattle trees. The butterflies drink nectar.
?How big is the double-spotted line blue?
Its open wings are only about 2 centimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Nacaduba biocellata
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Nacaduba biocellata (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 Sarah McCaffrey, Museum Victoria. CC BY 3.0 au, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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