Yellow-collared scape moth
Cisseps fulvicollis
The yellow-collared scape moth is a small dark moth with a yellow-orange collar behind its head. It flies in fields and along forest edges in late spring and summer. Its caterpillar is soft and hairy, with dark and yellow stripes.
Lives in
Across North America, from Canada to Texas and Florida, in fields and at forest edges
Wingspan
2.5 to 3.8 cm (0.98 to 1.5 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
The caterpillars eat grasses and sedges.
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 Yellow-collared scape moth 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)
Yellow-collared scape moth about 14 km/h (8.7 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its caterpillar can be yellow, brown or black, with long, soft, pale hairs.
2
It looks a lot like the Virginia ctenucha moth, but it also lives in the southeast of the USA, where that moth does not.
3
You can see it from late spring through the summer.
you asked
Most asked questions about Yellow-collared scape moth
?What does the yellow-collared scape moth eat?
Its caterpillars eat grasses and sedges.
?Is the yellow-collared scape moth harmful?
No. It is a harmless moth.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cisseps fulvicollis
- Named by
- Hübner, 1818
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Erebidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Erebidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Cisseps fulvicollis (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 Photo by Greg Hume ( Greg5030 ). CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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