Blue-banded king crow butterfly
Euploea eunice
The blue-banded king crow is a butterfly from the warm forests of southern and eastern Asia. It belongs to a group of butterflies called the crows and tigers. Its name tells you to look for a blue band on its wings.
Lives in
Southern and eastern Asia, from India's Andaman Islands and China to Japan, the Philippines, Java, Bali and Guam
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other butterflies, the grown-ups sip nectar from flowers. Its caterpillars eat the leaves of fig trees and a few other trees.
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)
Blue-banded king crow butterfly about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It lives on a long chain of islands, and scientists have named 14 different local kinds of it.
2
Its caterpillars like fig trees, the same kind of tree that gives us figs to eat.
3
It is found as far north as Japan and Taiwan and as far south as Java and Bali.
you asked
Most asked questions about Blue-banded king crow butterfly
?Where does the blue-banded king crow live?
In southern and eastern Asia, on many islands from Japan to Bali, and on Guam.
?What do its caterpillars eat?
Leaves of fig trees and a few other trees.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Euploea eunice
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Blue-banded king crow
Where the facts come from
- Euploea eunice (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 Peellden. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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