Garden webworm moth
Achyra rantalis
The garden webworm moth is a small moth that lives in fields and gardens. Its caterpillars feed on many crops and garden plants. In warm places it can have several families in one year.
Lives in
North America, from Maine and Quebec to Florida and Mexico, and the West Indies
Wingspan
1.7 to 2.3 cm (0.67 to 0.91 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting people, so you can watch it up close.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat leaves of low plants like alfalfa, beans, clover, corn, cotton, peas and strawberries.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 4 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 34 seconds
How big is Garden webworm moth compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Garden webworm moth about 11 km/h (6.8 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
In the south there can be up to four generations every year.
2
Its caterpillars eat many farm and garden plants, from beans to strawberries.
3
It has been found as far west as California and Colorado.
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Most asked questions about Garden webworm moth
?What does the garden webworm eat?
Leaves of alfalfa, beans, clover, corn, cotton, peas, strawberries and other low plants.
?How big is the garden webworm moth?
Its wingspan is about 17 to 23 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Achyra rantalis
- Named by
- Guenée, 1854
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Crambidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Crambidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Garden webworm
Where the facts come from
- Achyra rantalis (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 Dendroica cerulea. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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