Sigmoid prominent
Clostera albosigma
The sigmoid prominent is a moth from the north of North America. It lives where poplar and willow trees grow. It flies in the summer months.
Lives in
Canada and the northern United States
Wingspan
2.8 to 3.8 cm (1.1 to 1.5 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat the leaves of poplar and willow trees.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 6 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 27 seconds
How big is Sigmoid prominent compared to YOU?
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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)
Sigmoid prominent about 14 km/h (8.7 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It lives all the way from Newfoundland in the east to Vancouver Island in the west.
2
In the north it reaches the Great Slave Lake in Canada.
3
It flies from May to August, depending on where it lives.
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Most asked questions about Sigmoid prominent
?What does the sigmoid prominent eat?
Its caterpillars eat poplar and willow leaves.
?How big is the sigmoid prominent?
Its wings measure 28 to 38 millimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Clostera albosigma
- Named by
- Fitch, 1856
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Notodontidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Notodontidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Clostera albosigma (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 cyanocorax. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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