Blair's mocha
Blair's mocha is a small moth that comes in many colours, from reddish brown to sandy yellow and orange. Some have little round spots on their wings with a white middle, like tiny eyes. It loves warm places around the Mediterranean Sea.
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Fun facts
The first moths of the year are big, but the ones that hatch later in the summer are much smaller.
It is a traveller. In summer some fly north over the Alps, all the way to southern England, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.
It lives on every big island in the Mediterranean Sea, and also on Madeira and the Azores.
It looks so much like its cousins that even experts find it hard to tell them apart.
The moths fly from June to October, depending on where they live.
Most asked questions about Blair's mocha
?What does Blair's mocha eat?
Its caterpillars eat oak leaves.
?How big is Blair's mocha?
Its wings measure about 19 to 36 millimetres from tip to tip. Later summer moths are smaller.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cyclophora puppillaria
- Named by
- Hübner, 1799
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Cyclophora puppillaria (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 Donald Hobern. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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