It is unlikely that you will find a person who would not like beautiful butterflies. And they are all charming, each in their own way. It doesn’t matter what color the moth has: white, yellow or black with bright spots that look like eyes. They all look like tender little flowers swirling in the air. The only grief - their life is very short. For many, it is calculated in days.
Let's talk about what a lemongrass butterfly looks like. In the summer it is difficult to walk through a park, a park or a flowering meadow and not find fluttering moths there. Many of them live in the tropics, but there are those who settled in our latitudes. These include a yellowish charming creature. Probably, everyone knows what a butterfly-lemongrass looks like - for its color, it got this name.
Habitat
It belongs to the family Belianka (Pieridae) and has a fairly common habitat. It extends to North Africa, Europe, Asia and Japan. Usually a butterfly can be seen in clearings in bright forests, in city flower beds, in gardens and parks. Often it flutters on the edges of forests, where buckthorn grows. The leaves of this plant are food for its caterpillars. For this butterfly is sometimes called a buckwheat.
This is a centenarian among such insects. It often happens that she lives more than a year. Winters in foliage or grass. Her active years usually begin in spring and last until September.
What does a lemongrass butterfly look like?
The color of the moth depends on the gender of the individual. In males, it is bright yellow above and light green, the color of a leaf, from the underside of the wing. Females have a greenish-white color and in flight are very similar to ordinary cabbage. On all wings in the center is a red dot. Their front pair has a peak in the form of a tip. In appearance, the butterfly is very similar to another species - the Cleopatra whitewash. Their difference is only in the reddish strip located on the underside of the front wings. These butterflies are among the first to wake up after sleeping in the spring. Then they become the decoration of gardens, meadows and forests.
What do moths eat?
What a butterfly-lemongrass looks like is no secret. Each of us met with her, and more than once. But what they eat, not everyone knows. Even small children know that they fly from flower to flower. But what do they collect on them? Just nectar.
Eating them, they accumulate strength for wintering. An interesting fact is that many butterflies die out due to the destruction of the plants that their caterpillars feed on. But lemongrass found a way out. Butterflies began to eat other plants, and this helped them survive.
Another interesting fact is that when photographing you will see in the picture that it is a white butterfly. Pictures in this case will more accurately convey the color of the moth. It is very interesting to watch her mating flights in the spring. This is a bewitching sight. The female usually flies ahead, and the male follows her at the same distance. From afar it seems that he is being pulled by a string. Here is such an amazing creature, this butterfly.
