Common mangrove buckeye
Junonia genoveva
The common mangrove buckeye is a butterfly from South America. Like other buckeyes, it has round eye spots on its wings. It drinks sweet nectar from flowers.
Lives in
South America, and maybe Central America
Wingspan
4.5 to 5.7 cm (1.8 to 2.2 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
The butterflies drink nectar from flowers.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🧱wings as wide as 2 toy building bricks⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 25 seconds
How big is Common mangrove buckeye compared to YOU?
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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)
Common mangrove buckeye about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It looks so much like the tropical buckeye that even scientists have mixed the two up.
2
Its butterfly cousin in Florida and the Caribbean used to be counted as the same species.
3
Its wings measure about 45 to 57 millimetres across.
you asked
Most asked questions about Common mangrove buckeye
?Where does the common mangrove buckeye live?
Mostly in South America.
?What does the common mangrove buckeye eat?
The butterflies drink flower nectar.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Junonia genoveva
- Named by
- Cramer, 1780
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- South America
- Also known as
- Mangrove buckeye
Where the facts come from
- Junonia genoveva (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 J. Simón Tagtachian Depicted place: Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina ( 34°35′45″S 58°21′29″W / 34.59596943°S 58.3580622301°W / -34.5959. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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