One-spot grass yellow
Eurema andersoni
The one-spot grass yellow is a small yellow butterfly from South and Southeast Asia. It belongs to the yellows and whites, the same family as the cabbage white. Its yellow wings have a dark band along the outer edge.
Lives in
India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and on to Southeast Asia and Taiwan
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It is a tiny, gentle butterfly.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars have been found eating the leaves of a plant called ventilago.
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)
One-spot grass yellow 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 looks a little different in the wet season and the dry season. In the dry season the markings under its wings are clearer.
2
The female is paler than the male.
3
There are thirteen slightly different kinds of it, living in places like Taiwan, Java, Borneo and the Andaman Islands.
you asked
Most asked questions about One-spot grass yellow
?Where does the one-spot grass yellow live?
In South and Southeast Asia, from India to Taiwan, Java and Borneo.
?What does the one-spot grass yellow eat?
Its caterpillars have been found on a plant called ventilago.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Eurema andersoni
- Named by
- Moore, 1886
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Anderson's grass yellow
Where the facts come from
- Eurema andersonii (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 Notafly. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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