Green-blotched moth
The green-blotched moth is a brown moth with wavy green markings on its front wings. It has a hairy crest just behind its head, like a little hairdo. Its pattern is so special that you can hardly mix it up with any other moth.
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Fun facts
Its caterpillars are bright green and grow to about 3 centimetres long.
Some fly over the sea to New Zealand in summer and live there for a while.
It is the only species in its group.
It can be seen flying at any time of year.
Most asked questions about Green-blotched moth
?Where does the green-blotched moth live?
In Australia, and sometimes it reaches New Zealand in summer.
?What does the green-blotched moth eat?
Its caterpillars eat lobelia, verbena and bluebell plants.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cosmodes elegans
- Named by
- Donovan, 1805
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Cosmodes elegans (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 Birgit E. Rhode, Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd.. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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