Flame-shouldered dart
The flame-shouldered dart is a moth from North America. It looks almost exactly like a moth from Europe and Asia, so for a long time people thought they were the same. Only in 1998 did a scientist show that it is its own kind.
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Fun facts
Its wings are about 2.5 to 3 centimetres from tip to tip.
A scientist called Don Lafontaine described it in 1998. He saw that it was different from its look-alike cousin in Europe and Asia.
There are two families of young each year, and the moths fly from April to September.
Its caterpillars are not fussy and eat garden plants like beet as well as wild plants like clover.
Most asked questions about Flame-shouldered dart
?What does the flame-shouldered dart eat?
Its caterpillars eat plants such as beet, clover, chicory and willow.
?When does the flame-shouldered dart fly?
From April to September.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Ochropleura implecta
- Named by
- Lafontaine, 1998
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Ochropleura implecta (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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