Mexican yellow
The Mexican yellow is a pale yellow butterfly with a black border on its front wings. The black edge makes a shape that looks like the face of a dog or a wolf. Its back wings end in a sharp point.
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Fun facts
Butterflies that hatch in winter have pale yellow, reddish or even pink undersides on their wings.
The boys fly around all day looking for girls.
It has three or four families of babies each year.
Its caterpillar is green with a creamy stripe down its back and a yellow stripe on each side.
In late summer some fly far to the north, and a few even reach Canada.
Most asked questions about Mexican yellow
?Is the Mexican yellow dangerous?
No. It is a butterfly and cannot bite or sting.
?Why is it called the wolf-face sulphur?
Because the black border on its yellow front wings makes a shape like a dog or wolf face.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Eurema mexicana
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Wolf-face sulphur
Where the facts come from
- Eurema mexicana (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 derivative work: Meganmccarty ( talk ) Mexican_Yellow_Megan_McCarty13.jpg : Meganmccarty. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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