Centre-barred sallow
The centre-barred sallow is a deep yellow moth with a greyish-purple band across the middle of each front wing. That band is the bar its name talks about. It flies at the end of summer and in early autumn.
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Fun facts
Some of these moths are purplish almost all over, with just two yellowish lines left.
In Turkey and Syria they are paler, more reddish or yellowish.
Its caterpillar is brownish, freckled with darker spots, with three whitish lines along its back.
Grown-ups fly once a year, from August to early October.
Most asked questions about Centre-barred sallow
?Is the centre-barred sallow dangerous?
No. It is a moth and cannot bite or sting.
?What do centre-barred sallow caterpillars eat?
Mostly the leaves of ash trees.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Atethmia centrago
- Named by
- Haworth, 1809
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Atethmia centrago (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 AJC1 from UK. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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