Canadian melanolophia moth
Melanolophia canadaria
The Canadian melanolophia is a brown, mottled moth from North America. When it rests, it holds all four wings open flat, so it looks like a little piece of bark. A dark V shape across its back wings helps you recognise it.
Lives in
Eastern North America, from Nova Scotia to Florida and Texas, in woods and shrubland
Wingspan
3 to 3.6 cm (1.2 to 1.4 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat the leaves of birch, elm, maple, oak, pine and cherry trees.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 6 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 29 seconds
How big is Canadian melanolophia moth 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)
Canadian melanolophia moth 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 March to September and has two families of babies a year.
2
It spends the winter as a caterpillar.
3
Its wings measure about 3 to 3.5 centimetres from tip to tip.
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Most asked questions about Canadian melanolophia moth
?What does the Canadian melanolophia eat?
Its caterpillars eat leaves of birch, elm, maple, oak, pine and cherry trees.
?How can I recognise the Canadian melanolophia?
It is brown and mottled, rests with its wings open flat and has a dark V on its back wings.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Melanolophia canadaria
- Named by
- Guenée, 1857
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Canadian melanolophia
Where the facts come from
- Melanolophia canadaria (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 Dendroica cerulea. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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