Setaceous Hebrew character
The setaceous Hebrew character is a reddish brown night moth with a black mark on each front wing. The mark looks like a letter from the Hebrew alphabet, with a pale cream patch next to it. It loves sweet things and flowers.
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Fun facts
It flies at night and is attracted to lamps and to sugar.
There are two families each year, and the moths can be seen from May to October.
It spends the winter as a caterpillar.
It lives right across Canada and the northern USA, all the way to Alaska.
Most asked questions about Setaceous Hebrew character
?Why is it called the Hebrew character?
The black mark on its wing looks like the Hebrew letter nun. Setaceous means bristly, because of its hairs.
?What does the setaceous Hebrew character eat?
The moth drinks from flowers and sugary things. Its caterpillar eats many kinds of plants.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Xestia c-nigrum
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Setaceous Hebrew character (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 unknown author. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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