Beautiful plume moth
The beautiful plume moth is a slim, warm reddish-brown moth. Plume moths look like a little letter T when they rest, with long thin legs. Their wings are split into feathery parts.
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Fun facts
It can be seen almost all year round, because the grown-up moths sleep through the winter.
It starts flying at dusk. In autumn it is often found on ivy.
It looks almost exactly like the brindled plume. To be really sure, experts have to study it under a microscope.
Its caterpillars even eat garden geraniums and lavender.
Most asked questions about Beautiful plume moth
?What does the beautiful plume caterpillar eat?
Many low-growing plants, including geraniums, mint, sage, lavender and heather.
?When can I see a beautiful plume moth?
Almost any month, because the adults spend the winter asleep and wake up in spring.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Amblyptilia acanthadactyla
- Named by
- Hübner, 1813
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Pterophoridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pterophoridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
- Also known as
- Beautiful plume
Where the facts come from
- Amblyptilia acanthadactyla (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 Patrick Clement from West Midlands, England. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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