Mexican fritillary
The Mexican fritillary is a bright orange butterfly with a row of black spots near the edges of its wings. Underneath, its wings are yellow orange. It loves open sunny places and gardens.
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Fun facts
Its caterpillar is shiny red with silver spots and six rows of black spines.
On the caterpillar's red head there are two long black spines with little knobs on the ends.
Its chrysalis is dark brown with gold spots that look like eyes, and a black mark shaped like a T.
In Mexico you can see it flying all year round.
Most asked questions about Mexican fritillary
?What does the Mexican fritillary caterpillar eat?
Passionflowers, yellow alder and damiana.
?How big is the Mexican fritillary?
Its wings measure about 6.5 to 7.5 centimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Euptoieta hegesia
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
Where the facts come from
- Euptoieta hegesia (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 Anne Toal. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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