What does a lemongrass butterfly look like?

Today we will talk about lemongrass and find out how this butterfly actually looks and look at the photos. Despite its modest appearance, lemongrass is very beautiful.

As soon as spring takes its first steps, as, welcoming it, willow blossoms in our area. Fluffy yellow earrings, like lights, beckon the first lovers to feast on flower pollen. Among butterflies it is without a doubt lemongrass and daytime peacock eye.

 

Lemongrasses are painted more modestly than a bright peacock eye. However, their yellow coloration is very pleasing to our eyes after the gray and boring palette of winter. Lemongrass males are more yellow than females. They have an interesting property: as soon as a cloud runs into the sun, the flying lemon tree, as if disconnected from the power supply, falls to the ground, and so, lying on its side, freezes. But one has only to touch the body of a butterfly with a life-giving sunbeam, as it will again continue its interrupted path. Sometimes lemon trees lie right on the snow, waiting for a new portion of heat!

 

The second name of this butterfly is buckthorn. It is named so by scientists in honor of the buckthorn bush. Caterpillars of lemongrass feed on its leaves. They deftly eat the leaves in such a way that often only the central vein remains from the leaf blade with the lateral veins diverging in different directions, like a fish skeleton.

 

lemongrass - real centenarians among butterflies, fly from early spring to late autumn. In order to survive, they take frequent "minutes of rest", falling into a stupor, and not only in the absence of the sun. Sometimes lemongrass can spend a whole week in immobility, and then fly out into the world again, having gained strength!

peacock eye so named for the similarity of the spots on its wings with the coloring of peacock feathers. A young butterfly that has just emerged from the chrysalis looks especially bright and elegant.

The overwintered butterfly can fly out of the shelter tattered and rumpled. Now, after viewing the photos, you know what lemongrass looks like and how it differs from other butterflies.

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