Barberry geometer moth
Rheumaptera meadii
The barberry geometer is a moth from the United States and southern Canada. Its caterpillar is a looper that walks by making a loop with its body. The caterpillar eats barberry bushes and nothing else.
Lives in
United States and southern Canada, where barberry bushes grow
Wingspan
3 to 3.6 cm (1.2 to 1.4 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat the leaves of barberry bushes.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 6 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 29 seconds
How big is Barberry geometer moth 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)
Barberry geometer moth about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its caterpillar is dark brown with a reddish brown head and a wide white stripe on each side.
2
A fully grown caterpillar is about 2.5 centimetres long.
3
It spends the winter as a pupa in a little room under the soil.
4
It has several families of babies a year and flies from April to October.
you asked
Most asked questions about Barberry geometer moth
?What does the barberry geometer eat?
Its caterpillars eat barberry bushes.
?When does the barberry geometer fly?
From April to October.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Rheumaptera meadii
- Named by
- Packard, 1874
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Barberry looper
Where the facts come from
- Coryphista (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 Dendroica cerulea. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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