Green-brindled crescent
The green-brindled crescent is a reddish grey moth with sparkly green scales along the veins of its wings. It has a bright white crescent mark on each front wing. It flies late in the year, in autumn.
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Fun facts
It flies from September to November, when most other moths are gone.
If something disturbs it, it drops to the ground and lies still in the dead leaves.
The mother lays her eggs on tree trunks, and they stay there all winter.
Some moths in Britain have no green on their wings at all.
Most asked questions about Green-brindled crescent
?When does the green-brindled crescent fly?
In autumn, from September to November.
?What does the green-brindled crescent eat?
Its caterpillars eat hawthorn, blackthorn, birch and cherry leaves.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Allophyes oxyacanthae
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Allophyes oxyacanthae (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. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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