Anna's eighty-eight
Anna's eighty-eight is a butterfly with a number on its wings. Under its back wings there are black lines on white that look just like the number 88. On top it is dark brown with a shiny blue-green stripe.
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Fun facts
Sometimes the pattern looks more like 98 or 89 instead of 88.
The undersides of its front wings are bright red, with a wide black band and white tips.
Very rarely, one flies all the way north to the south of Texas in the United States.
It prefers a smelly snack of old fruit or dung to sweet flower nectar.
Most asked questions about Anna's eighty-eight
?Why is it called the eighty-eight?
Because the lines under its back wings make a pattern that looks like the number 88.
?Where does Anna's eighty-eight live?
In wet tropical forests in Central America. Once in a while one strays into south Texas.
?What does Anna's eighty-eight eat?
The butterflies drink juice from rotting fruit and dung, and the caterpillars eat tropical plants.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Diaethria anna
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Finita Burrasca
Where the facts come from
- Diaethria anna (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 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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