Northern wave moth
The northern wave is a pale moth whose white wings are sprinkled with tiny yellowish dots. Thin brown lines cross its wings like gentle waves. It flies at night and likes to come to lights.
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Fun facts
It has three thin brown lines on each front wing and two on each back wing.
Its caterpillar can be green or brown, with dark marks on its back.
It spends the winter as a pupa.
It can have one or two families of babies a year and flies from May to August.
Most asked questions about Northern wave moth
?What does the northern wave moth eat?
Its caterpillars eat leaves of alder, aspen, beech, birch and willow.
?When does the northern wave moth fly?
At night, from May to August, and it often comes to lights.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cabera exanthemata
- Named by
- Scopoli, 1763
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
- Also known as
- Common wave
Where the facts come from
- Common wave (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 Alexis. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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