White angled-sulphur
Anteos clorinde
The white angled-sulphur is a big, pale butterfly from the Americas. Its wings can be as wide as a child's hand. In warm tropical places it flies all year round.
Lives in
South America, Central America and the far south of North America
Wingspan
7 to 9 cm (2.8 to 3.5 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It is a butterfly that does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat the leaves of a tree called Senna.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🧱wings as wide as 3 toy building bricks⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 21 seconds
How big is White angled-sulphur compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
White angled-sulphur about 18 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 wings are 7 to 9 centimetres from tip to tip.
2
In the tropics it flies all year, but further north it only flies from August to December.
3
It is also called the ghost brimstone.
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Most asked questions about White angled-sulphur
?How big is the white angled-sulphur?
It is a big butterfly. Its wings are 7 to 9 centimetres across.
?Where does the white angled-sulphur live?
In South America, Central America and the southern edge of North America.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anteos clorinde
- Named by
- Godart, 1824
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- South America, North America
- Also known as
- Ghost brimstone
Where the facts come from
- Anteos clorinde (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 Svdmolen. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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