Southern moon moth
The southern moon moth is a big brown moth with a hairy body. On each front wing it has a large black and blue eyespot. In the daytime it likes to rest in dark corners of houses and sheds.
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Fun facts
Its wings measure about 9 centimetres from tip to tip, bigger than a grown-up's palm.
Its eyespots may make it look like the face of a bigger animal.
Its caterpillar has long brown stripes and short stiff hairs.
It is also called the granny moth.
Most asked questions about Southern moon moth
?Why is there a big moth in my house during the day?
Southern moon moths like to rest in dark places in homes and buildings in the daytime.
?What does the southern moon moth caterpillar eat?
Leaves of wattle trees, such as golden wattle and silver wattle.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Dasypodia selenophora
- Named by
- Guenée, 1852
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Southern old lady moth, Granny moth
Where the facts come from
- Dasypodia selenophora (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 dhobern. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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