Green drab
Ophiusa tirhaca
The green drab is a large moth with wings about 5 centimetres across. It lives in warm places on four continents. Its caterpillars are not fussy and eat many kinds of bushes.
Lives in
Southern Europe, Africa, southern Asia and Australia
Wingspan
5 cm (2 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat heather, rockroses, eucalyptus, viburnum, geraniums and other bushes.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🧱wings as wide as 1.5 toy building bricks⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 24 seconds
How big is Green drab compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Green drab about 16 km/h (9.9 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its wings measure about 5 centimetres from tip to tip.
2
It lives in southern Europe, Africa, southern Asia and Australia.
3
It was first described by the Dutch scientist Pieter Cramer in 1777.
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Most asked questions about Green drab
?Where does the green drab live?
In southern Europe, Africa, southern Asia and Australia.
?What does the green drab eat?
Its caterpillars eat many bushes, like heather, rockroses, eucalyptus and viburnum.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Ophiusa tirhaca
- Named by
- Cramer, 1777
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Erebidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Erebidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Ophiusa tirhaca (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by JMK. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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