Dark marbled carpet
The dark marbled carpet is a moth with wings that look like marble, with wavy lines across them. No two look quite the same: some are whitish, some grey, brown or almost black. It likes cool places such as mountains, wet bogs and forests.
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Fun facts
It has been found high in the Alps, about 2,400 metres above the sea.
Its caterpillar is light green with two white lines along its back.
It lives as far north as Lapland and Iceland.
It looks almost exactly like another moth, so even experts have to look very closely to tell them apart.
The grown-up moths fly in July and August.
Most asked questions about Dark marbled carpet
?What does the dark marbled carpet eat?
Its caterpillars eat leaves of shrubs and plants like bilberry, willow and alder.
?How big is the dark marbled carpet?
Its wings are about 2.5 to 3 centimetres across when spread out.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Dysstroma citrata
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1761
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
- Also known as
- Northern marbled carpet
Where the facts come from
- Dysstroma citrata (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 Dumi. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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