Common crow butterfly
The common crow is a shiny black butterfly with rows of white spots along the edges of its wings. It flies slowly and glides easily through the air. Birds leave it alone because it tastes horrible.
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Fun facts
The poison from the caterpillar's food stays in its body all the way to the grown-up butterfly.
Some tasty butterflies copy its look so birds will think they taste bad too.
Groups of them gather on wet mud to drink, which is called mud-puddling.
Males visit certain plants to collect a special scent they use to attract a mate.
Most asked questions about Common crow butterfly
?Is the common crow butterfly poisonous?
It tastes bad and is poisonous to birds that try to eat it, but it is harmless to touch with care.
?Why is it called the common crow?
Because it is black like a crow and very common.
?How big is the common crow butterfly?
Its wings are about 8 to 9 centimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Euploea core
- Named by
- Cramer, 1780
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Common crow, Common Indian crow, Australian crow
Where the facts come from
- Euploea core (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 Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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