Bride underwing
Catocala neogama
The bride underwing is a big moth with plain brownish grey front wings. Hidden underneath are back wings in bright orange with bold black bands. When it rests on tree bark with its wings closed, it is very hard to see.
Lives in
North America east of the Rocky Mountains, west to Arizona and Texas
Wingspan
7 to 8.5 cm (2.8 to 3.3 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat the leaves of walnut, butternut and hickory trees.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🧱wings as wide as 2.5 toy building bricks⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 19 seconds
How big is Bride underwing compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Bride underwing about 20 km/h (12 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
The moths in the far west are bigger, with wings about 9 centimetres across.
2
Its legs are covered in little spines.
3
It flies from June to October.
4
A similar but smaller moth is called the old wife underwing.
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Most asked questions about Bride underwing
?What does the bride underwing eat?
Its caterpillars eat walnut, butternut and hickory leaves.
?How big is the bride underwing?
Its wings are about 7 to 8.5 centimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Catocala neogama
- Named by
- J. E. Smith, 1797
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Erebidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Erebidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Bride
Where the facts come from
- Catocala neogama (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 Nancy. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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