Orange swift
The orange swift is a night moth. The male has rich orange front wings with two white bars that make a V shape. The grown-up moths have no mouth tube, so they never visit flowers to drink.
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Fun facts
The female does not glue her eggs to a plant. She simply drops them while hovering over the food plants.
The caterpillars bore into roots and can feed underground for two years.
Females are bigger than males and not as brightly coloured.
It flies at night from June to September and is attracted to light.
Most asked questions about Orange swift
?What does the orange swift eat?
The moth does not eat at all. Its caterpillars eat plant roots underground.
?When can you see an orange swift?
On summer nights from June to September, often near lights.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Triodia sylvina
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1761
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Hepialidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hepialidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
- Also known as
- Orange moth
Where the facts come from
- Orange swift (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 unknown author. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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