Great sooty satyr
Satyrus ferula
The great sooty satyr is a dark brown butterfly, the colour of soot. On its front wings it has black eye spots with little white middles. It lives on grassy, rocky hillsides.
Lives in
Southern Europe, Morocco, Turkey, Iran and Central Asia to western China and the Himalayas
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat grasses like fescue and feather grass.
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)
Great sooty satyr about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Each front wing is about 2.5 to 3 centimetres long.
2
The females are paler than the males, with greyish bands under their back wings.
3
The mother lays her eggs on grass.
4
It lives up in the hills and mountains, from 400 to 1,800 metres high.
you asked
Most asked questions about Great sooty satyr
?Where does the great sooty satyr live?
On grassy, rocky hills in southern Europe, North Africa and Asia.
?What does the great sooty satyr eat?
Its caterpillars eat grasses.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Satyrus ferula
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Satyrus ferula (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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