Cream wave
The cream wave is a small, pale moth with creamy white wings. Thin wiggly lines run across its wings like little waves. It flutters through woods in early summer.
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Fun facts
Its wings are about 3 centimetres across from tip to tip.
No two look exactly alike. The colour and the wavy lines change from moth to moth.
The males have small feathery antennae.
There is only one family of cream waves each year. The moths fly from late May to early July.
Most asked questions about Cream wave
?What does the cream wave caterpillar eat?
Low plants like dandelion, woodruff and bilberry, and even dry leaves of poplar and willow.
?Where does the cream wave live?
In forests and woodland in Europe and across Asia, all the way to Japan.
?Is the cream wave dangerous?
No. It is a harmless little moth.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Scopula floslactata
- Named by
- Haworth, 1809
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Cream wave (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 Ilia Ustyantsev from Russia. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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