Geranium argus
The geranium argus is a small dark brown butterfly with white edges on its wings. It hardly ever leaves its favourite flowers, the wild geraniums called cranesbills. It even sleeps in them at night.
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Fun facts
It flies slowly and a bit clumsily, and often hovers in front of a flower before it lands.
At night it sleeps inside the flowers of cranesbills.
The female has small red spots near the edge of her back wings.
It lives from Scandinavia to Italy, but not in England.
Scientists have moved it between several groups of butterflies. New studies showed that it belongs in a group of its own.
Most asked questions about Geranium argus
?What does the geranium argus eat?
Its caterpillars eat wild geraniums such as cranesbills and storksbills.
?How big is the geranium argus?
Small. Its wings are about 26 to 30 millimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Eumedonia eumedon
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Eumedonia eumedon (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 Siga. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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