Isabella's longwing
Isabella's longwing is a big tropical butterfly with dark brown wings striped with orange bands. It lives high up in the treetops of the rainforest. Under its back wings it has a row of tiny blue spots.
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Fun facts
Its caterpillars are white and black and covered with long black spines.
The caterpillars live together in groups.
In the warm tropics it flies all year round, and it keeps flying even when the light is dim.
It lives from the seaside up to about 1500 metres high in the mountains.
Most asked questions about Isabella's longwing
?Where does Isabella's longwing live?
In rainforests from Mexico to the Amazon and on Caribbean islands.
?How big is Isabella's longwing?
Its open wings measure about 6.5 to 9 cm across.
?What does the Isabella's longwing caterpillar eat?
The leaves of passionflower plants.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Eueides isabella
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Isabella's heliconian
Where the facts come from
- Eueides isabella (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 NaturaLista.co user: juan_carlos_caicedo_hernandez. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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