The brick
Sunira circellaris
The brick is an autumn moth with wings from yellow to reddish brown, like the colour of a brick. It has a dark spot in the middle of each front wing. It flies on cool autumn nights and loves sugary food.
Lives in
Most of Europe, Turkey and Armenia, where elm trees grow
Wingspan
3.4 to 4.4 cm (1.3 to 1.7 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars mostly eat the flowers and seeds of elm trees, and sometimes ash, poplar and willow.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 7 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 25 seconds
How big is The brick compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
The brick about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It flies at night from August to October.
2
It comes to lights, but it likes some flowers and sugary food even more.
3
It spends the winter as an egg.
4
Its caterpillar is reddish brown with a row of dark V shapes on its back.
you asked
Most asked questions about The brick
?Why is it called the brick?
Because its wings are often reddish brown, the colour of a brick.
?What does the brick eat?
Its caterpillars mostly eat elm flowers and seeds.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Sunira circellaris
- Named by
- Hufnagel, 1766
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
- Also known as
- Brick
Where the facts come from
- Agrochola circellaris (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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