Yellow pansy
The male yellow pansy is bright yellow with black edges. On each back wing it has a big, shining blue spot, like a jewel. It loves open, sunny places with bushes and grass.
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Fun facts
The female looks like the male, but her colours are duller.
Underneath, the wings are pale yellow and grey with brown markings.
In the dry season, the underside of its back wings is sprinkled with dark scales, so it looks different from the rainy season form.
The fringes on the edges of its wings are white and brown, one after the other.
Most asked questions about Yellow pansy
?What does the yellow pansy look like?
The male is bright yellow with black edges and a shiny blue spot on each back wing. The female is duller.
?Where does the yellow pansy live?
In warm parts of Africa and Asia, in open places with scrub and grass.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Junonia hierta
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Junonia hierta (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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