Baltimore snout
Hypena baltimoralis
The Baltimore snout is a greyish brown moth with a big dark patch on each front wing. When it rests, it tucks its back wings under its front wings and looks like a little triangle. It lives near leafy forests.
Lives in
Eastern United States
Wingspan
2.6 to 3.2 cm (1 to 1.3 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat maple leaves, mainly from red and silver maples.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 5 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 29 seconds
How big is Baltimore snout 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)
Baltimore snout about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It flies from April to October.
2
In New England there are at least two families of these moths each year, and even more further south.
3
The females often have lighter wings than the males.
you asked
Most asked questions about Baltimore snout
?What does the Baltimore snout eat?
Its caterpillars eat maple leaves, especially red and silver maple.
?Where does the Baltimore snout live?
In the eastern United States, mostly in or near leafy forests.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hypena baltimoralis
- Named by
- Guenée, 1854
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Erebidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Erebidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Baltimore bomolocha, Baltimore hypena
Where the facts come from
- Hypena baltimoralis (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 cyanocorax. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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