Common wood-nymph
The common wood-nymph is a brown butterfly with two big eyespots on each front wing, like a pair of goggles. Some of them also have a bright yellow patch around the eyes. It flutters through fields, meadows and the sunny edges of woods in North America.
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Fun facts
It has little ears at the base of its front wings that can hear low sounds.
Its caterpillar is green with darker stripes, thin white hairs and two short pink points at its tail end.
The tiny caterpillar sleeps through the whole winter.
Its eggs start pale yellow and later turn tan with orange or pink blotches.
It has only one family of babies each year.
Most asked questions about Common wood-nymph
?What does the common wood-nymph eat?
The butterfly drinks nectar, tree sap and juice from rotting things. Its caterpillars eat grasses.
?Why does the wood-nymph have eyespots?
Its big eyespots look like eyes, which can fool hungry birds.
?How big is the common wood-nymph?
Its wings are about 53 to 73 millimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cercyonis pegala
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1775
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Wood-nymph, Blue-eyed grayling, Goggle eye
Where the facts come from
- Common wood-nymph (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 D. Gordon E. Robertson. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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