Maiden's blush
The maiden's blush is a small, sand coloured moth with a soft reddish or yellowish glow. A curved brown line runs across its wings, with neat rows of tiny dots. It lives mostly in oak woods.
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Fun facts
Its caterpillar can be green, brown or grey, with red and yellowish white spots on its sides.
In western Europe it flies twice a year, in May and June and again in August.
The moths of the second family of the year are usually smaller.
It is very hard to tell apart from some of its close cousins.
Most asked questions about Maiden's blush
?What does the maiden's blush eat?
Its caterpillars eat oak leaves.
?Where does the maiden's blush live?
In oak woods across Central and Eastern Europe, east to the Urals.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cyclophora punctaria
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Cyclophora punctaria (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 Svdmolen. CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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