Paper kite butterfly
The paper kite butterfly is a big butterfly with thin, see-through, silvery white wings covered in black spots. It looks like it is made of rice paper. It floats slowly through the air like a paper kite.
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Fun facts
Its wings are 12 to 14 centimetres across, wider than a grown-up's hand.
It is a star in butterfly houses all around the world.
Being poisonous protects it, because birds learn not to eat it.
There are more than 20 slightly different kinds of it in different places.
Most asked questions about Paper kite butterfly
?Is the paper kite butterfly poisonous?
Yes, it is poisonous to eat because of the plants its caterpillar eats. It is safe to look at.
?How big is the paper kite butterfly?
Its wings are about 12 to 14 centimetres across.
?Where does the paper kite butterfly live?
In Southeast Asia, and also in Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Idea leuconoe
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Rice paper butterfly, Large tree nymph, White tree nymph
Where the facts come from
- Idea leuconoe (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 Greg Hume. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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