Green arches
The green arches is a moth with lovely green wings, marked with darker green, black and a pale cream patch. It looks like a piece of moss or lichen. It flies in summer in Europe, Asia and North America.
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Fun facts
Some green arches moths are very pale, almost whitish green, and a rare kind is reddish brown instead of green.
It lives on two continents far apart, in Europe and Asia and also in North America.
Its caterpillar is not fussy and eats lots of different plants.
It flies from May to August, depending on the place.
Most asked questions about Green arches
?What colour is the green arches moth?
Green, with darker green and black lines and a pale cream patch on each front wing.
?How big is the green arches?
Its wings measure about 40 to 50 millimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anaplectoides prasina
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Anaplectoides prasina (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 Donald Hobern from Canberra, Australia. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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