Chestnut tiger
The chestnut tiger is a large butterfly with long wings. Its front wings are black with big bluish-white, see-through patches, and its back wings are chestnut red. It lives along the Himalayas and in East Asia.
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Fun facts
A full-grown caterpillar is about 4 centimetres long, yellowish green with rows of yellow spots and long thin feelers.
Its pupa is pale emerald green with golden yellow spots, like a little jewel.
Eggs laid in September can turn into butterflies the next April.
In 1987 North Korea put it on a postage stamp.
Most asked questions about Chestnut tiger
?What does the chestnut tiger eat?
The butterfly drinks nectar, and its caterpillars eat plants of the milkweed family.
?Where does the chestnut tiger live?
Along the Himalayas and in East and Southeast Asia, from Pakistan to Japan.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Parantica sita
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Parantica sita (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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