Clouded border
The clouded border is a small moth with white wings and black blotches around the edges, like a picture frame. No two look exactly alike. Some have lots of black and some only a little.
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Fun facts
Very rarely, one is almost completely white or completely black.
It spends the winter as a pupa and can stay a pupa for up to four years before becoming a moth.
Its egg is yellow-green and covered with a pattern of tiny six-sided shapes, like a honeycomb.
In Britain it flies in June and July and is attracted to lights at night.
Most asked questions about Clouded border
?What does the clouded border moth look like?
It has white wings with black blotches around the edges.
?How big is the clouded border?
Its wingspan is about 24 to 28 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lomaspilis marginata
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Clouded border (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 Ivar Leidus. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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