Green carpet
The green carpet is a small moth with green to bluish green wings, patterned with darker bands and white edges. When it rests on moss or leaves it blends right in. It flies at night in early summer.
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Fun facts
Its green colour fades as the moth gets older.
Some moths that have just come out of the pupa are whitish, yellowish or even pink.
Its caterpillar is grey violet and covered in tiny black spots, each with a small stiff brush.
In the mountains it lives higher than 2,000 metres.
Most asked questions about Green carpet
?When does the green carpet moth fly?
At night in June and July, and it often comes to lights.
?What does the green carpet caterpillar eat?
Mostly bedstraw, and sometimes dock and dead-nettle.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Colostygia pectinataria
- Named by
- Knoch, 1781
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Colostygia pectinataria (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 Frank Vassen. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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