Scalloped oak
The scalloped oak is a night moth with yellowish wings and a broad orange-brown band across the middle. In the band sits one small black dot. Its caterpillar is grey and looks just like a little twig.
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Fun facts
Its twig-like caterpillar can sit very still on a branch and blend right in.
Its caterpillar is not only a leaf eater. It may also eat smaller caterpillars.
It spends the winter as an egg.
The moths fly from July to September and sometimes come to lights in large numbers.
Most asked questions about Scalloped oak
?What does the scalloped oak caterpillar look like?
It is grey or brownish and looks just like a small twig.
?How big is the scalloped oak moth?
Its wingspan is about 32 to 46 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Crocallis elinguaria
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Scalloped oak (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 Bj.schoenmakers. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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