Yellow butterfly
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Name: Colias erate Family: Pieridae – Yellow-white butterflies | ||||||
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Names in other languages
モンキチョウ
斑缘点粉蝶 Citrin Mariposa colias Farfalla gialla Желтушка
노랑나비 斑緣點粉蝶 Citrin Mariposa colias Zitronenfalter Citroenvlinder |
The Yellow Butterfly[nb 1] is a bug in the Animal Crossing series introduced in Doubutsu no Mori. It is visually similar to the Common Butterfly in every way except its color.
Catch details
In Animal Crossing
In Wild World
Description | Males are yellow but females can be white. |
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Time of year | Mar – Jun Jul - Aug Sep |
Time of day | 4 AM – 7 PM 8 AM – 5 PM 8 AM – 4 PM |
Peak times | |
Location | Flying near flowers |
Bug size | 50 mm |
Selling price | 90 Bells |
Furniture size |
In City Folk
Description | All males of the species are white- females can be yellow or white. |
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Time of year | Mar – Jun; Sep |
Time of day | Mar – Jun: 4 AM – 7 PM Sep: 8 AM – 4 PM |
Peak times | N/A |
Location | Flying near flowers |
Bug size | 50 mm |
Rarity | Common |
Selling price | 90 Bells |
Furniture size |
In New Leaf
Time of year | Mar – Jun; Sep |
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Time of day | Mar - Jun: 4 AM – 7 PM Sep: 8 AM – 4 PM |
Peak times | Mar – Jun: 8 AM – 5 PM |
Location | Flying near flowers |
Size | 54 mm |
Rarity | Common |
Selling price | 90 Bells |
Furniture size |
In Pocket Camp
Availability | Not currently available
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Location | Sunburst Island |
Size | 50.7 mm – 57.3 mm |
Rarity | ★ |
Selling price | 10 Bells |
Version added | Unknown |
Villager gift data | Tier: Unknown
Rewards: Unknown |
In New Horizons
Time of year | North: Mar – June; Sep – Oct South: Mar – Apr; Sep – Dec |
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Time of day | 4 AM – 7 PM |
Location | Flying |
Weather | Any except rain |
Rarity | Very Common |
Spawn requirement | Appears from the start of the game |
Selling prices | Nook's Cranny: 160 Bells Flick: 240 Bells |
Furniture size |
Donating to the museum
As with all bugs and fish in the Animal Crossing series, the Yellow Butterfly can be donated to the museum by talking to Blathers. During each donation, he will enlighten the player to some information about the donation. Below are quotes from each game, on what he has to say;
In Animal Crossing
Blathers has only a general response upon accepting butterflies for the museum in Animal Crossing:
"There's an old saying among some of my contemporaries: "Butterflies are beautiful, yet moths are monstrous." Well, if you were to ask me, I'd say they were all the same! By which I mean disgusting! Truly hoo-rrific, wot wot!"
The Yellow Butterfly can be found fluttering around the flowers in the central display in the insect room after donation.
In Wild World
Upon donation, Blathers the curator speaks of the Yellow Butterfly;
"Butterflies are covered in "scales" that flake off like dust when touched, eh wot? Blech... The very thought makes my eyebrows itch unbearably... Anyhoo, I suppose that's neither here nor there..."
As with other butterflies, the Yellow Butterfly can be found flapping around the flowers in the first room of the insect display.
In City Folk
Once again, Blathers will speak of the Yellow Butterfly in a rather horrified way:
"We call them all yellow butterflies, but many subspecies of this insect exist, wot wot? Indeed, this fact makes them rather interesting to many researchers... What's more interesting to me is why anyone in their proper mind would take interest in these things."
In City Folk, the Yellow Butterfly appears flying around the flowers on the lower terrace of the insect room.
In New Leaf
Upon being donated, the butterfly can be found in the first room of the bug exhibit resting on flowers with the other butterflies. The exhibit has this to say about the Yellow Butterfly:
"The yellow butterfly is similar to the common butterfly, with the two easily mistaken for one another. Males are more often a yellowish color, and females are more often white. The larvae feed on plants of the Fabaceae family, such as milk vetch or white clover."
In New Horizons
When asked about the bug, Blathers will say the following:
"Allow me to enlighten you... The yellow butterfly is named for its yellow wings. Need I say more? If I must, then allow me to note that the female yellow butterfly can lay up to 600 eggs at a time! Bleech! And their creepy crawly caterpillars just love to chomp on clover plants. A recipe for disaster, I say.Just imagine reaching for a four-leaf clover, only to touch a larva instead! Yuck! The worst of luck!"
The Yellow Butterfly can be found in the butterfly room.
Gallery
Trivia
- The Yellow Butterfly was the first bug revealed to be in Animal Crossing: New Leaf, with a photo of one flying near a tree.
Real-world information
Pieridae, yellow-white butterflies, are a large family of butterflies that are widespread throughout the world. So common in fact, that many sub-species have been given dozens of names throughout the world. Yellow-white butterflies are, as the name suggests, yellow or white in coloring, and usually have black markings on the wings. Males are generally colored differently to the females of the same species.
The butterflies shown in Animal Crossing are females, as males lack the yellow spots within the black bands on the edges of the wings. Colias erate is locally known as the Eastern Pale Clouded Yellow and is widespread over eastern Europe and Asia.
Names in other languages
モンキチョウ monkichō |
Eastern pale-clouded yellow | |
노랑나비 norangnabi |
Eastern pale-clouded yellow | |
斑缘点粉蝶 bānyuándiǎn fěndié |
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斑緣點粉蝶 Unknown |
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Желтушка Zheltushka |
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Citroenvlinder | Common brimstone | |
Zitronenfalter | Common brimstone | |
Mariposa colias | Colias Butterfly | |
Citrin | Due to the yellow color, shared with citrus | |
Farfalla gialla | - |
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