Butterfly

Spotless Grass Yellow

Eurema laeta

Spotless Grass Yellow sipping from a pink flower

Scientific name: Eurema laeta
Family: Pieridae, order Lepidoptera
Group: Butterfly
Wingspan: 30 to 45 mm

A little yellow butterfly that lives in grass but never eats it.

Spot it Small, lemon-yellow wings with a black border on the forewing; the hindwing border is thin or missing in the dry season.
Home Grassland and garden lawns, almost all year.
Caterpillar food Plants of the pea family: cassias, babul, gulmohar, sesbania and siris.
Why it matters Groups gather on damp ground, and the caterpillars feed many birds.

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