African moon moth
The African moon moth is a giant emerald green moth with long tails on its back wings. Each wing has a yellow and red eyespot. With its green colour and leafy tails, it looks a lot like a leaf.
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Fun facts
From its head to the tips of its tails it can measure 12 to 14 centimetres.
Its long tails look like a dried leaf stem, which helps it hide.
The front edge of its front wings is grey and furry.
Its caterpillars are green with thin white bands and rows of long spikes on their backs.
Its cocoon is silvery and full of tiny holes.
Most asked questions about African moon moth
?How big is the African moon moth?
Its wings measure 10 to 12 centimetres across, and with its tails it is up to 14 centimetres long.
?Is the African moon moth dangerous?
No. It is harmless to people.
?What does the African moon moth caterpillar eat?
Leaves of trees like corkwood, marula and tamboti.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Argema mimosae
- Named by
- Boisduval, 1847
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Saturniidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Saturniidae
- Lives on
- Africa
Where the facts come from
- Argema mimosae (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 No machine-readable author provided. Kugamazog~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims).. CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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