Common looper moth
The common looper is a brownish moth with shiny silver spots on its wings. Its caterpillar is bright green. You can meet it from spring until autumn in the east and middle of North America.
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Fun facts
There are three or more families of these moths every year, one after another.
Its green caterpillar has small black spots on each side of its head that look like fake eyes.
It looks almost exactly like another moth. The trick is that the silver spots on its wings are joined together.
Its caterpillars seem to have found a new favourite food: soybean plants on farms.
Most asked questions about Common looper moth
?What does the common looper caterpillar eat?
Many kinds of leafy plants, and also soybean plants.
?How big is the common looper moth?
With its wings spread it measures about 3 to 4 centimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Autographa precationis
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Common looper
Where the facts come from
- Autographa precationis (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 Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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