Bordered patch
The bordered patch is a black butterfly with white, yellow, orange or red spots. Hardly any two look the same, because their colours change so much. Every one of them has a small red spot near the back of its hind wing.
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Fun facts
A mother lays about 100 eggs or more in one cluster under a leaf.
Young caterpillars eat together in a group, but grow up to live alone.
Males wait on hilltops to meet females.
In southern Texas you can see it flying all year round.
Most asked questions about Bordered patch
?What does the bordered patch eat?
Adults drink nectar from flowers. Caterpillars eat sunflower and ragweed leaves.
?How big is the bordered patch?
Its wings are about 3 to 5 centimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Chlosyne lacinia
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Sunflower patch
Where the facts come from
- Chlosyne lacinia (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 Wilfredor. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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