Red cracker
Hamadryas amphinome
The red cracker is a tropical butterfly from the Americas. It belongs to the cracker butterflies, which are famous for making a crackling sound when they fly. It lives from Mexico all the way down to Argentina.
Lives in
From Mexico and the Caribbean through Central America and the Amazon to Argentina, in tropical forests
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat the leaves of a climbing vine called Dalechampia.
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)
Red cracker about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Like other cracker butterflies, it can make a crackling sound in flight.
2
In Costa Rica it is most common on the side of the country facing the Pacific Ocean.
3
There are several kinds of it, living in different countries from Mexico to Bolivia.
you asked
Most asked questions about Red cracker
?Why is it called a cracker butterfly?
Because cracker butterflies can make a crackling sound when they fly.
?What does the red cracker caterpillar eat?
The leaves of a climbing vine called Dalechampia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hamadryas amphinome
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
Where the facts come from
- Hamadryas amphinome (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 Thomas Bresson. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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