Large fruit-tree tortrix
The large fruit-tree tortrix is a brownish moth that lives where apple and pear trees grow. Its back wings are grey with a bright orange tip. Its green caterpillars like to hide inside leaves that they roll and tie together with silk.
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Fun facts
The mother lays her eggs in groups of 50 to 100 and covers them with a wax that has the same colour as the leaf.
Its caterpillar spends the winter in a little silk tent on a twig.
In spring the caterpillars bore into opening buds for a meal.
It flies in the late afternoon and is drawn to lights at night.
Its eggs are so well hidden that they are very hard to find. They hatch after about three weeks.
Most asked questions about Large fruit-tree tortrix
?Is the large fruit-tree tortrix dangerous?
No. It is a small moth that cannot bite or sting.
?What do large fruit-tree tortrix caterpillars eat?
Leaves, buds and fruit skin of trees like apple, pear, cherry and plum.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Archips podana
- Named by
- Scopoli, 1763
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Tortricidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Tortricidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Archips podana (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 Olei. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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