Transalpine burnet moth
The transalpine burnet moth is a shiny blue-green or blue-black moth with six bright red spots on its front wings. Its back wings are bright red with a dark border. It flies in the daytime over warm, dry meadows.
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Fun facts
It is most common high up in the Alps, above 2,000 metres.
Some of them have only five red spots instead of six.
In Italy it can fly from May to July in really big numbers.
One form even keeps flying in cloudy weather until night falls.
Most asked questions about Transalpine burnet moth
?Where does the transalpine burnet moth live?
In southern and central Europe, especially in the Alps and Italy.
?What does the transalpine burnet moth look like?
It is shiny blue-green or blue-black with six red spots and bright red back wings.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Zygaena transalpina
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Zygaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Zygaenidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Zygaena transalpina (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
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