Diana fritillary
The Diana fritillary is a butterfly where boys and girls look like two different kinds. The boy is dark with bright orange edges on his wings. The girl is bigger and dark blue. It lives in woodlands in the south and east of North America.
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Fun facts
It became the official state butterfly of Arkansas in 2007.
The mother does not lay her eggs on the plant. She scatters them on the ground around the violets.
The tiny caterpillars dig into the ground to spend the winter and come out in spring.
Changing weather and lost forests are making it harder for this butterfly to survive.
Most asked questions about Diana fritillary
?What does the Diana fritillary eat?
The butterflies drink nectar. The caterpillars eat violet leaves.
?Why do boy and girl Diana fritillaries look different?
Boys are dark and orange, while girls are bigger and dark blue. Many butterflies have boys and girls with different colours.
?Where does the Diana fritillary live?
In woods in the southern and eastern United States, such as the Appalachian Mountains and Arkansas.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Speyeria diana
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Diana fritillary (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 Meganmccarty. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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