To start, it is important to know that players will only find the Peacock Butterfly in Animal Crossing: New Horizons from March to June in the Northern Hemisphere and from September to December in the Southern Hemisphere. Additionally, like other bugs in ACNH, the Peacock Butterfly only appears during specific hours, and fans should be looking for them between 4am and 7pm. While this is a fairly lenient window, it still means that Peacock Butterflies are not always available.
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Timing is not the only thing that players that are looking for Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ Peacock Butterfly need to be aware of, though, as their appearance is contingent upon one other important condition. Specifically, Peacock Butterflies will only spawn around purple, black, or blue flowers. To obtain flowers of these colors, players will need to grow hybrid flowers in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, or they can simply find them on a mystery island and transport them back to their own islands.
While this may seem like a bit of a hassle, it is worth noting that Peacock Butterflies in ACNH sell for the somewhat sizable sum of 2,500 Bells. This means that there is an additional incentive for getting Peacock Butterflies to spawn beyond simply donating one to the museum, and players that put in the effort can definitely rack up Bells quite quickly with these bugs flying around.
To summarize, fans that are trying to catch a Peacock Butterfly in Animal Crossing: New Horizons should keep their eyes on appropriately-colored hybrid flowers during the aforementioned months and hours. Those that do will certainly see many Peacock Butterflies, and all that a fan must do once these pretty bugs start appearing is pull out their net, capture one, and head on over to Blathers.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available now, exclusively for Nintendo Switch.
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Source: IGN
