Sugarcane looper
The sugarcane looper is a grey-brown moth with a long slanting line across each front wing. It can poke holes in fruit to drink the juice inside. Its caterpillars love grassy crops like rice, corn and sugarcane, which makes farmers unhappy.
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Fun facts
The grown-up moth is a fruit piercer, which means it pokes a hole in fruit to drink the juice.
It is one of the big pests of crops where it lives.
The male has long thick hair on his back legs.
Its eggs are dark green with purple blotches.
Most asked questions about Sugarcane looper
?Why is it called the sugarcane looper?
Because its caterpillars eat sugarcane and other grassy crops.
?Is the sugarcane looper dangerous?
Not to people, but it can damage farmers' crops.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Mocis frugalis
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1775
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Erebidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Erebidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Africa
Where the facts come from
- Mocis frugalis (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 Ravi Vaidyanathan. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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