Common baron
Euthalia aconthea
The common baron is a medium sized brown butterfly with a row of white spots. It flies with stiff wing beats and likes to glide low over the ground. It guards its own little patch of land.
Lives in
Sri Lanka, India and Southeast Asia
Wingspan
6.8 to 7.9 cm (2.7 to 3.1 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Sometimes its caterpillars nibble mango leaves a little.
What does it eat?
The caterpillar eats leaves of mango and cashew trees. It lies flat on the leaf it is eating.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🧱wings as wide as 2.5 toy building bricks⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 22 seconds
How big is Common baron compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Common baron about 17 km/h (11 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its green caterpillar is covered in branching spines that lie flat on the leaf, so it is very hard to see.
2
The caterpillar has a blue and yellow line down its back.
3
Its pupa is green and has four corners.
4
Females are paler than males and have bigger white spots.
you asked
Most asked questions about Common baron
?What does the common baron eat?
Its caterpillar eats mango and cashew leaves.
?How big is the common baron?
Its wings are about 7 to 8 centimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Euthalia aconthea
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Baron
Where the facts come from
- Euthalia aconthea (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 Jeevan Jose, Kerala, India. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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