They say you are what you eat - well, flamingos and the Cloudless Sulphur butterfly are out here proving that this is absolutely true.
They say you are what you eat - well, flamingos and the Cloudless Sulphur butterfly are out here proving that this is absolutely true. For flamingos, it’s a steady diet of shrimp. For the Cloudless Sulphur, that yellow hue comes from a menu of legumes such as Cassia and Senna plants that the creature consumes during caterpillar phase.
A mid-sized butterfly in the family Pieridae, Cloudless Sulphur are most common from Argentina to southern Texas, Georgia, and Florida, favouring open spaces, gardens, glades, seashores, and watercourses to make a home for the 2 to 3 days of its post-caterpillar lifespan. Butterfly enthusiasts will know that the key to telling this species apart from its lookalike, the Clouded Sulphur, is the lack of black edging on the topsides of its wings.