Common bagworm moth
The common bagworm moth has a very strange family. The father is a small furry brown moth with shiny wings. The mother looks like a little grub: she has legs but no wings at all. Its caterpillar builds itself a tiny protective tube out of bits of grass.
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Fun facts
The male flies at night, from May to July.
The caterpillar carries its grass case around with it, like a snail carries its shell.
The female is yellowish or light brown with a few dark brown plates on her back.
Most asked questions about Common bagworm moth
?Can the female bagworm moth fly?
No. The female has legs but no wings, so she cannot fly.
?What does a bagworm caterpillar do?
It makes a little case from grass to hide in and eats grasses and leaves.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Psyche casta
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Psychidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Psychidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Psyche casta (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 Svdmolen. CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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