Green cutworm moth
Anicla infecta
The green cutworm moth is a medium-sized moth found from Canada all the way to Uruguay. Its caterpillar is called the green cutworm. The grown-up moth helps flowers by carrying their pollen.
Lives in
From southeastern Canada through the eastern USA to Uruguay
Wingspan
3 to 3.5 cm (1.2 to 1.4 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
The moths visit flowers like fetterbush and carry pollen between them. The caterpillars eat beets, grasses and tobacco.
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 cutworm 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 cutworm 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 lives across a huge area, from Canada in the north to Uruguay in South America.
2
The moths fly from June to September.
3
It is a pollinator of a shrub called fetterbush.
you asked
Most asked questions about Green cutworm moth
?What does the green cutworm eat?
The caterpillar eats beets, grasses and tobacco.
?How big is the green cutworm moth?
Its wings measure about 3 to 3.5 centimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anicla infecta
- Named by
- Ochsenheimer, 1816
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Green cutworm
Where the facts come from
- Anicla infecta (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 Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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