Drab prominent
Misogada unicolor
The drab prominent is a plain, quiet-coloured moth from North America. It is the only species in its whole genus. Its caterpillars grow up on cottonwood poplars and sycamore trees.
Lives in
North America, from Nova Scotia to Florida and west to Texas and Saskatchewan
Wingspan
4.5 cm (1.8 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat the leaves of cottonwood poplars and sycamore trees.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 8 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 25 seconds
How big is Drab prominent compared to YOU?
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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)
Drab prominent about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
There can be two or three families of it in one year.
2
With its wings spread it is about 4.5 centimetres wide.
3
It has a genus all to itself, because no other living moth is quite like it.
you asked
Most asked questions about Drab prominent
?What does the drab prominent eat?
Its caterpillars eat the leaves of cottonwood poplars and sycamore trees.
?Where does the drab prominent live?
In North America, from Canada down to Florida and Texas.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Misogada unicolor
- Named by
- Packard, 1864
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Notodontidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Notodontidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Misogada (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 NCBioTeacher. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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