Blue-spotted crow butterfly
Euploea midamus
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
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other butterflies, the adults drink nectar from flowers.
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-spotted 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 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
- 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.
- 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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