Summary: Many different butterflies are yellow, but a two common ones are the Tiger Swallowtail and the Sulfur butterfly. Identify different species of yellow butterflies with information from a butterfly conservatory curator in this free video on butterflies.
Fred Gagnon grew up in Albany, N.Y. where his love for butterflies and moths began around the age of 4. He is mostly self-taught when it comes to these insects, but he did earn a...read more
"So yellow butterflies are common color for butterflies to be. A lot of times there are yellow leaves and butterflies use them as kind of a background. Nothing is really interested in eating a yellow leaf, so if you look like a yellow leaf and an animal eats leaves, it probably isn't going to bother you. And if you eat insects, it's probably not going to bother you, because you look like a dead piece of vegetation. There are a lot of yellow butterflies around the world. Typically, yellow butterflies are Tiger Swallowtail or a Sulfur Butterfly, there are several Sulfur Butterflies that are yellow. They actually think and theorize that their name butterfly, may have come from yellow butterflies in Europe, because somebody though that they look like butter. And so there's, there's all sorts of yellow butterflies in the world. Typically a yellow butterfly would be yellow underneath and on the top and other butterflies may look like leaves and be flashy colors inside. But most, most places in the world, yellow butterflies are yellow on both sides."
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