Narrow-winged grey
Eudonia angustea
The narrow-winged grey is a small moth with long, narrow, whitish wings sprinkled with brown and black. It has a little black X-shaped mark on each front wing. Its caterpillars eat moss.
Lives in
Southern and western Europe, the Canary Islands, Madeira and Turkey
Wingspan
1.7 to 2.2 cm (0.67 to 0.87 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat mosses that grow on walls and in sand dunes.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 4 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 38 seconds
How big is Narrow-winged grey compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Narrow-winged grey about 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its wings are only about 2 centimetres from tip to tip.
2
It flies from July until late autumn.
3
Its caterpillar is blackish grey with a pale brown head.
you asked
Most asked questions about Narrow-winged grey
?What does the narrow-winged grey eat?
Its caterpillars eat moss on walls and in sand dunes.
?How big is the narrow-winged grey?
It is small. Its wings are about 17 to 22 millimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Eudonia angustea
- Named by
- Curtis, 1827
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Crambidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Crambidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Eudonia angustea (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 Mick Talbot. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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