Raspberry pyrausta moth
Pyrausta signatalis
The raspberry pyrausta moth is a small moth from North America. Its caterpillars live on bee balm flowers. They munch the flowers and seeds instead of the leaves.
Lives in
North America, from British Columbia and Ontario south to Texas and Arizona, in grassland
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat the flowers and seeds of bee balm plants.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Raspberry pyrausta moth about 14 km/h (8.7 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its caterpillars eat flowers, not leaves.
2
It spends the winter tucked inside a cocoon, waiting to become a moth.
3
In some places it has two families in one year.
4
Little flies and wasps lay their eggs in its caterpillars.
you asked
Most asked questions about Raspberry pyrausta moth
?What does the raspberry pyrausta moth eat?
Its caterpillars eat the flowers and seeds of bee balm.
?Where does the raspberry pyrausta moth live?
In North America, in grassland and aspen parkland.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pyrausta signatalis
- Named by
- Walker, 1866
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Crambidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Crambidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Pyrausta signatalis (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 Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren = Chrissy McClarren and Andy Reago. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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