Pale oak beauty
The pale oak beauty is a grey-white moth dusted with tiny black specks, with dark wavy lines across its wings. When it sits on tree bark, it almost disappears. Its caterpillars live on oak and birch trees.
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Fun facts
Each front wing has a small ring with a pale middle, like a little eye.
The moths fly once a year, from the end of April to July.
It looks very much like its cousin, the great oak beauty. Experts check a pale spot under the wing tip to tell them apart.
It was described in 1763 in a book about the insects of Carniola, a region that is now in Slovenia.
Most asked questions about Pale oak beauty
?What does the pale oak beauty eat?
Its caterpillars eat the leaves of oak, birch and other trees.
?How big is the pale oak beauty?
Its wingspan is about 4.5 to 5.5 centimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hypomecis punctinalis
- Named by
- Scopoli, 1763
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Hypomecis punctinalis (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 Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez ( Lmbuga Commons )( Lmbuga Galipedia ). CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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