High brown fritillary
The high brown fritillary is a big orange butterfly with black spots on top of its wings. Underneath, its wings have shiny silver spots. It loves warm, sunny places where lots of violets grow.
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Fun facts
It is the most threatened butterfly in Great Britain, where only a few places are left with it.
Its caterpillar is brown with a white stripe and spiky hairs, so it hides well among dead fern leaves.
The eggs are laid in summer, wait through the whole winter and hatch in March.
The caterpillars like to sunbathe. Warming up in the sun helps them grow faster.
When it flies, it is very hard to tell apart from its cousin, the dark green fritillary.
Most asked questions about High brown fritillary
?Is the high brown fritillary rare?
Yes, in Great Britain it is very rare and protected. In other parts of Europe it is still quite common.
?What does the high brown fritillary eat?
The butterfly drinks nectar from flowers like bramble and knapweed, and its caterpillar eats violets.
?How big is the high brown fritillary?
Its wings are about 6.5 centimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Fabriciana adippe
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- High brown fritillary (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 Harald Süpfle. CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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