Dotted border moth
The dotted border is a moth that comes out at the end of winter, when it is still cold. The boy has orange brown wings with a row of dots along the edge. The girl has only tiny stumps for wings and cannot fly at all.
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Fun facts
The row of dots along the edge of the boy's wings gives it its name.
The girl sits on tree trunks and branches and waits for a boy to find her.
It flies from February to April, earlier than most moths.
Some of them are almost black.
It spends the winter as a pupa.
Most asked questions about Dotted border moth
?Why can the girl dotted border not fly?
Her wings are just tiny stumps, so she crawls on tree trunks instead.
?When can you see the dotted border?
At the end of winter and in early spring, from February to April.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Agriopis marginaria
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1776
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
- Also known as
- Dotted border
Where the facts come from
- Dotted 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 unknown author. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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