Woodland grayling
The woodland grayling is a large brown butterfly with a white band and a black eye spot on each front wing. When it sits on a tree trunk with its wings closed, it almost disappears. Its marbled underside looks just like bark.
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Fun facts
When its wings are closed, it hides its eye spots, so it is hard to spot on bark.
It flies from June to September, sometimes even into October.
Its caterpillar spends the winter as a caterpillar.
It lives from the seaside up to 2,000 metres high in the mountains.
Most asked questions about Woodland grayling
?Where can I see a woodland grayling?
In woods and woodland clearings in southern Europe, resting on tree trunks.
?What does the woodland grayling caterpillar eat?
Different kinds of grass.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hipparchia fagi
- Named by
- Scopoli, 1763
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Hipparchia fagi (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 Joan Carles Hinojosa Galisteo. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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