Blood-vein
The blood-vein is a pretty cream coloured moth with a bold red or purple stripe running across its wings. When it sits, the stripe lines up across all four wings like one long line. Its wings have pointy corners and red edges too.
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Fun facts
It has two families each year, flying in May and June and again in August and September.
It flies at night and comes to lights.
Its caterpillar is grey brown with darker spots and spends the winter as a caterpillar.
East of a line through Finland and Estonia, a very similar sister species lives instead.
Most asked questions about Blood-vein
?Why is it called the blood-vein?
Because of the bold red stripe that runs across its pale wings.
?What does the blood-vein caterpillar eat?
Leaves of low plants like dock, sorrel, knotgrass and orache.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Timandra comae
- Named by
- Schmidt, 1931
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Blood-vein (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 Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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