Clymene moth
Haploa clymene
The Clymene moth is a tiger moth with creamy yellow front wings and a dark brown pattern along the edge. Its back wings are yellow-orange with one or two dark spots. Its caterpillar is spiny and brownish black with a yellow stripe down its back.
Lives in
Eastern North America
Wingspan
4 to 5.5 cm (1.6 to 2.2 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. The moth cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
The caterpillars eat plants like boneset, oak, peach and willow.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🧱wings as wide as 1.5 toy building bricks⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 24 seconds
How big is Clymene moth compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Clymene moth about 16 km/h (9.9 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
The caterpillars spend the winter and finish growing in spring and early summer.
2
There is only one family of babies each year.
3
It belongs to the tiger moths, a big group of often brightly coloured moths.
you asked
Most asked questions about Clymene moth
?What does the Clymene moth eat?
Its caterpillars eat boneset, oak, peach and willow leaves.
?Is the Clymene moth harmful?
No. It is harmless to people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Haploa clymene
- Named by
- Brown, 1776
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Erebidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Erebidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Haploa clymene (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 Benny Mazur from Toledo, OH. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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