Dark-barred twin-spot carpet
Xanthorhoe ferrugata
The dark-barred twin-spot carpet is a small moth with a wide band across the middle of each front wing. In some moths the band is reddish or purplish, in others it is black. Near the wing tip it has two little dark spots, the twin spots.
Lives in
Europe, Asia to China and Siberia, and North America
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat low plants like bedstraw, chickweed, bellflowers and thistles.
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)
Dark-barred twin-spot carpet about 14 km/h (8.7 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its caterpillar is long, slender and grey with a few darker spots.
2
In Central Europe it has two families of young each year, flying from late April to mid September.
3
It is very hard to tell apart from a close cousin, even for experts.
you asked
Most asked questions about Dark-barred twin-spot carpet
?What does the dark-barred twin-spot carpet eat?
Its caterpillars eat plants like bedstraw, chickweed and bellflowers.
?Where does the dark-barred twin-spot carpet live?
Across Europe, Asia and North America.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Xanthorhoe ferrugata
- Named by
- Clerck, 1759
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Xanthorhoe ferrugata (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 Olei. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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