Green cloverworm moth
Hypena scabra
The green cloverworm moth is a small brown night moth with a long snout. Its caterpillar is a green worm that loves clover, beans and other plants of the pea family.
Lives in
North America, from Canada to Florida and Texas
Wingspan
2.5 to 3.5 cm (0.98 to 1.4 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
The caterpillar eats many plants, especially clover and beans, and also leaves of maple, cherry and elm.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 6 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 29 seconds
How big is Green cloverworm moth compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Green cloverworm moth about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It flies from March to November, and all year round in warm places.
2
There are several families of babies every year.
3
It once turned up in Britain after travelling in a shipment of American soybeans.
you asked
Most asked questions about Green cloverworm moth
?What does the green cloverworm eat?
Clover, beans and other pea family plants, and the leaves of some trees.
?Is the green cloverworm moth harmful?
It is harmless to people, though its caterpillars nibble crops like beans.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hypena scabra
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1798
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Erebidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Erebidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Green cloverworm, Black snout
Where the facts come from
- Hypena scabra (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 NCBioTeacher. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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