The white-point
Mythimna albipuncta
The white-point is a reddish-brown night moth. On each front wing it has one small, bright white dot. That little dot gave it its name.
Lives in
Europe, North Africa, western Asia and the northeastern United States, in grassy places
Wingspan
3 to 3.5 cm (1.2 to 1.4 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting people, so you can watch it up close.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars feed on different kinds of grass.
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 29 seconds
How big is The white-point 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)
The white-point about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It spends the winter as a caterpillar, not as an egg or a moth.
2
In Britain it flies mostly in August and September.
3
Its caterpillar is greyish red with a white line along its back.
4
It looks so much like some of its relatives that you need to look closely at the white spot to tell them apart.
you asked
Most asked questions about The white-point
?How big is the white-point moth?
Its wingspan is about 30 to 35 millimetres.
?What does the white-point caterpillar eat?
Grasses of many kinds.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Mythimna albipuncta
- Named by
- Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia, North America
- Also known as
- White-point
Where the facts come from
- Mythimna albipuncta (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 Syrio. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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