White-rayed patch
Chlosyne ehrenbergii
The white-rayed patch is a butterfly that lives only in Mexico. The females are very friendly with each other and like to sit together in big groups on flowering bushes.
Lives in
Only in Mexico
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Butterflies cannot bite or sting. Just enjoy watching it.
What does it eat?
The grown-ups drink nectar from many flowers, such as daisies. The caterpillars eat the leaves of butterfly bushes.
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)
White-rayed patch about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Grown-up females like company and crowd together in groups on butterfly bushes.
2
Its caterpillars grow up eating the leaves of butterfly bushes, the same bushes the grown-ups like to sit on.
3
It sips nectar from daisies and other flowers of the daisy family.
you asked
Most asked questions about White-rayed patch
?Where does the white-rayed patch live?
Only in Mexico.
?What does the white-rayed patch eat?
The butterflies drink flower nectar, and the caterpillars eat butterfly bush leaves.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Chlosyne ehrenbergii
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- White-rayed checkerspot, Ehrenberg's patch
Where the facts come from
- Chlosyne ehrenbergii (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 Unspecified, Colorado State University. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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