Tiny grass blue
The tiny grass blue is one of the smallest butterflies around. The male's wings are a soft violet blue, and the female's are glossy brown. Underneath, the wings are grey with little black dots ringed in white.
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Fun facts
Its wings measure only about 1.5 centimetres from tip to tip, smaller than a coin.
Its eggs are pale green, round and flat, and only half a millimetre wide.
The mother lays her eggs one by one on the buds and flowers of the food plant.
Its caterpillar is green with a dark red line down its back and hairy sides.
Most asked questions about Tiny grass blue
?How big is the tiny grass blue?
Its wings are only about 1.5 centimetres across, which makes it one of the smallest butterflies.
?What does the tiny grass blue caterpillar eat?
It eats buds and flowers of plants in the acanthus family.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Zizula hylax
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Lycaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lycaenidae
- Lives on
- Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Zizula hylax (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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