Forest giant owl butterfly
The forest giant owl butterfly is one of the biggest butterflies in its family. Its wings can be as wide as a dinner plate is across the middle. Owl butterflies have big round spots on their wings that look like the eyes of an owl.
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Fun facts
Its wings can be up to 17 centimetres across.
The babies hatch from their eggs after only 3 to 5 days.
A young caterpillar is white with two orange-brown stripes and two little points at its tail end.
An older caterpillar grows soft hairs that look like spines and a crown of four horns on its head.
Its caterpillars eat banana leaves and can even munch the bananas.
Most asked questions about Forest giant owl butterfly
?How big is the forest giant owl butterfly?
Its wings can measure up to 17 centimetres from tip to tip.
?What does the forest giant owl butterfly eat?
The butterfly drinks juice from rotting fruit and nectar. The caterpillar eats leaves.
?Why is it called an owl butterfly?
The big round spots on its wings look like owl eyes.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Caligo eurilochus
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Forest giant owl
Where the facts come from
- Caligo eurilochus (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 Richard Bartz , Munich aka Makro Freak. CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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