Marbled carpet moth
The marbled carpet is a moth that hardly ever looks the same twice. Its front wings can be anything from white to black, with grey, brown and reddish shades in between. Its back wings, though, are always pale grey.
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Fun facts
Unlike most of its moth cousins, it likes to visit flowers and sweet, sugary food.
It spends the winter as a slender green caterpillar, often with reddish stripes.
It flies at night and comes to lights.
You can see the moths in any month from May to November.
Most asked questions about Marbled carpet moth
?What does the marbled carpet moth eat?
The moths drink from flowers and sugary food. The caterpillars eat many different plants.
?Why does every marbled carpet look different?
It is one of the most changeable moths of its family, in both size and colour.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Dysstroma truncata
- Named by
- Hufnagel, 1767
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
- Also known as
- Common marbled carpet
Where the facts come from
- Common marbled carpet (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 gailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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