Lorquin's admiral
Lorquin's admiral is a butterfly with brown-black wings and a row of white spots across them. The tips of its front wings are orange, as if dipped in paint. It is small, but very brave.
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Fun facts
It guards its patch very fiercely and even flies at big birds to chase them away.
Females are usually bigger than males.
Its caterpillars are yellow with a white patch on the back.
The mother lays her eggs near the tips of leaves.
In the north there is one family of babies each summer, but in sunny California there can be several in a year.
Most asked questions about Lorquin's admiral
?Where does Lorquin's admiral live?
In western North America, at forest edges, in mountain canyons, parks, orchards and along streams.
?What does Lorquin's admiral eat?
The butterflies sip flowers and also lick bird droppings and dung. The caterpillars eat leaves of willow, poplar and fruit trees.
?How big is Lorquin's admiral?
Its open wings measure about 5 to 7 centimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Limenitis lorquini
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Lorquin's admiral (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 (c) Jeff Bartlett, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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