Biba

## Other Info

### Likes

her friends, Shell School, Bo, her birthday, her clay star, playing Elevator with Lu, riding her bike, her parents.

### Dislikes

attention being taken away from her, her clay star being ruined, the dark, giving in to peer pressure, seeing her friends upset

### Family

* Unnamed mama (mother)
* Baasim (father)
* Bo (younger brother)

### Portrayed by

* Joy Tu Clarke (English)
* Astrid Danae Gutiérrez (Latin American Spanish, original dub)
* Barbi Drebnieks (Latin American Spanish, redub)
* Júlia Fretias (Brazilian Portuguese)
* Sandra Jara (European Spanish)
* Elif Acehan(Turkish/Türkçe)

### First Apperance

Fruit Caboose

**Biba Butterfly** is one of the six main characters featured in Lu & the Bally Bunch.

## Personality

*From the 9 Story Media Group website:*

*"Biba is an empathetic, energetic butterfly who can sometimes sit in her feelings until they erupt."*

Biba is Lu's best friend. Like Lu, she is energetic and always on the go. Hardly anything can stop Biba from having fun with family and friends, whether it be riding her balance bike in Bike Ride, engaging in the snowy game of Flap and Fly in Wiggling and Flapping or engaging in a game of 'catchy flies' in Swing Me.

Despite their similarities, Biba acts as a slight foil to the young ladybird. Lu is confident and self-assured while Biba can be shy at times. Biba has a habit of enclosing her emotions and hiding them from her friends until they explode into a dramatic expression, whether it be destroying a pillow fort in Play With Me! due to her jealousy over her baby brother Bo stealing Lu's attention or throwing her smushed up super star onto the craft table in frustration in Tidy Up.

Biba has a strong sense of empathy for her friends and doesn't hold grudges for long. In Squeaky Squid, despite Lu blowing up at her for refusing to trade her new toy squid, Biba still aided Lu in searching for her own toy frog. In Green Eyed Birthday Monster during her fourth birthday party, she doesn't blame Lu for throwing a fit over not receiving the toy she wanted, sharing her personal experiences with being jealous. In Tidy Up she learns the value of forgiveness and quicky forgives Lu for accidentally smushing up the clay star Biba prepared for her mom. Despite her overall responsible demeanor, Biba is not free from impulsive behavior. In Squeak Jumps, Declan and her attempted, and succeed, to pressure Lu into jumping on Marshall the toy, inevitably ripping him.

Biba has a strong sense of humor and frequently finds the antics of the other bugs funny. She laughs at the toilet humor of Declan, and occasionally Barnaby as well. She is amused by their behavior, and this shows the sense of friendship she has with them. Biba also likes dinosaurs; She received an ankylosaurus toy for her fourth birthday, which she affectionately named Anna. She helped Elodie build the toy horsefly stables and raced the toy dinosaurs up the pillars.

## Relationships

### Lu

Lu is Biba's best friend. They frequently hang out together, in and out of school. However, like any friends, they tend to have their arguments, such as Squeaky Squid, Green Eyed Birthday Monster, and Tidy Up, though they always find a solution in the end.

### Declan

Declan and Biba are great friends. Biba finds Declan funny and humorous in episodes such as Counting Spaghetti, where he makes a joke about drawing a toilet, and Wiggling and Flapping where he creates a sculpture made out of snow.

### Gus

Biba and Gus are good friends. They partnered up together for the rocket-ship project at Shell School but Biba was unable to finish since she came down with a bad case of itchy spots.

### Barnaby

Barnaby and Biba can be seen playing together in episodes such as Lu's New Shoes and I Can Catch. They don't interact much, but when they do it's always in good spirits.

### Elodie

Elodie and Biba don't have many interactions, but when they do it's on good terms. Biba and Elodie can be seen dancing together during some song segments. Elodie happily invited Biba to play with her in I Can Catch

## Physical Description:

Biba is a three (later four) year old monarch butterfly. She has orange skin and short pink hair covering up her antennas. She wears maroon sneakers with yellow straps on them and a pink long-sleeved shirt with a lighter pink heart on it.

## Appearances

Biba has appeared in every episode except for:

* Wibble Blobs
* A Twig's Tale
* Goodbye Rain Boots
* The Long Goodbye
* Mon Ami Celeri
* Bubble Trouble
* When Bugs Cry
* Elodie Wants to Decide
* Swim Class
* Boat Trip
* Scary Tara
* Home School Day
* Baby Trouble
* Gotcha!
* Power Flower
* Grow Lines
* Packing for France

## Trivia

* Biba is the first character on the show to celebrate a birthday. This also makes her the first character to age.
* Biba's original name was Bintu.
* Biba's family appears to be Middle-Eastern. This makes her one of two bugs in Lu's class to have an explicit ethnicity, the other being Elodie.
* Before the show came out, many fans believed Biba to be male due to her short hair, lack of eyelashes, and wearing of pants, which the two other girl characters do not.
* In the Portuguese dub of the show, she is called Bibi instead of Biba.
* Biba was the first bug to be absent for a day of Shell School.

## Sources

1. ↑ https://www.rte.ie/kids/2023/1127/1418730-lu-and-the-bally-bunch-these-little-bugs-are-big-fun/
2. ↑ Ladybird Lu Script Read (Edie Chua) - YouTube
3. ↑ Spotty Rocket