Limenitis Butterfly . With a wingspan of 80 mm, this large and attractive butterfly appears in the months of July and August and sometimes has the habit of gliding, to perch on moist soil or in excrement, organic waste that it takes advantage of to extract the part of the butterfly with its spirit trunk. liquid, just as it does with the nectar of flowers and that serves as food in the adult phase.
Summary
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- 1 History
- 2 He lives
- 3 Playback
- 4 Food
- 5 Curiosity
- 6Fuente
History
In the coloration that its body and wings present, its jagged edges can be highlighted together with the whimsical designs that nature endowed it with, it looks like hand-embroidered sketches with white, olive green, brown, red, orange and yellow threads, a beautiful range of colors. The wide white bands that stand out on its wings tell us that it is a female species since the male lacks them. The caterpillar is green with hairy outgrowths. The harsh winter is spent in a rolled up leaf, until May where it begins to turn into a chrysalis.
The Greater Nymph is a butterfly of which many people only know the males, the females are always unaccounted for. The explanation is simple, the males prefer the ground, the females the treetops .
A type of behavior that probably hides a teaching, the females of Greater Nymph carry the eggs and the ultimate ability to perpetuate the species. High up, isolated in the treetops, they are safe from some of their predators.
The main color of the male of the Greater Nymph (Limenitis populi, Polar admiral) is dark brown, almost black. Some white spots on forewings and near outer edge of wing some brick-colored ‘crescents’ which may occasionally be orange.
Habitat
It is distributed in some areas of central Europe , where they mix with different varieties that fly at that time of year.
Reproduction
They reproduce through the laying of eggs by adult butterflies.
Feeding
Until May they feed on poplar and poplar leaves that abound in the areas where they live.
Curiosity
Many confuse it with the butterfly called the forest nymph, the latter actually resembles it, but it is smaller, its wingspan does not exceed 55 mm and its color is duller.
