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Yellow butterfly
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Real-world info
Name: Colias erate Family: Pieridae – Yellow-white butterflies
Main appearances
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Other appearances
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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 is a bug in the Animal Crossing series that has appeared in every game to date. It is visually similar to the common butterfly in every way except its color.

In the games that the yellow butterfly appears in, it is the most common bug that the player can encounter, and can be found flying around flowers. In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, it can be caught from spring to the start of summer, and again from early to mid fall.

Catch details

In Animal Crossing

#2

"I caught a clouded yellow butterfly! It's such a cute yellow!"

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Time of year	Mar – Oct
Time of day	Mar, Sep – Oct: 8 AM – 4 PM Apr – Aug: 8 AM – 5 PM
Location	Flying
Weather	Any except rain
Selling price	80 Bells
Furniture size

In Wild World

#2

"I caught a yellow butterfly! What, is it scared?"

Description	Males are yellow but females can be white.
Time of year	Mar – Sep
Time of day	Mar – Jun: 4 AM – 7 PM Jul – Aug: 8 AM – 5 PM Sep: 8 AM – 4 PM
Peak times
Location	Flying near flowers
Bug size	50 mm
Selling price	90 Bells
Furniture size

In City Folk

#2

"I caught a yellow butterfly! C'mere, yellow fellow!"

Description	All males of the species are white- females can be yellow or white.
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

#2

"I caught a yellow butterfly! Now to catch a toastfly!"

Time of year	Mar – Jun; Sep
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

#27

Availability	Not currently available –
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

#2

"I caught a yellow butterfly! Shouldn't all BUTTERflies be yellow?"

Time of year	North: Mar – Jun; Sep – Oct South: Mar – Apr; Sep – Dec
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

The Yellow and Common Butterflies in City Folk

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

The Yellow Butterfly flying around the player in the museum in Animal Crossing: 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.

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Real-world information

A real yellow butterfly

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.

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.

Names in other languages

	モンキチョウ monki chou	Eastern pale-clouded yellow
	노랑나비 norangnabi	Eastern pale-clouded yellow
	斑缘点粉蝶 bānyuándiǎn fěndié
	斑緣點粉蝶 Unknown
	Желтушка Zheltushka
	Citroenvlinder	Common brimstone
	Zitronenfalter	Common brimstone
	Mariposa colias	Colias Butterfly
	Citrin	Due to the yellow color, shared with citrus
	Farfalla gialla	-

Notes

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