Blue tiger
The blue tiger is a big butterfly with dark wings covered in pale blue spots and stripes. The blue spots are a bit see-through, like stained glass. It loves sunshine and flies more when the light is bright.
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Fun facts
In southern India, huge groups of blue tigers fly off on long journeys during the rainy season.
Those travelling groups are almost all boys.
The dark parts of its wings soak up the sun's warmth, which helps it fly.
The tiny new caterpillar can double its size in just two days.
In 2019 one blue tiger was found on the Balearic Islands in Spain, the first one ever seen in Europe.
Most asked questions about Blue tiger
?Where does the blue tiger butterfly live?
In South Asia and Southeast Asia, from India to Indonesia and the Philippines.
?How big is a blue tiger butterfly?
Its wings are about 9 to 10 centimetres from tip to tip.
?What does a blue tiger caterpillar eat?
It eats milkweed plants and some of their relatives.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Tirumala limniace
- Named by
- Cramer, 1775
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Tirumala limniace (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 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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