Barred marble
The barred marble is a small moth with a pale brown, finely patterned wing. Across the middle of each front wing it has a dark brown band, like a stripe on a marble. It likes rough meadows and grassy roadsides.
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Fun facts
Its colours change a lot from moth to moth, so no two look quite the same.
The males fly by day and in the evening, but the females only come out at dusk.
Like many moths, it is drawn to lamps and lights at night.
You can see it flying from late May until late September.
Most asked questions about Barred marble
?What does the barred marble eat?
Its caterpillars eat dandelion roots under the ground.
?How big is the barred marble?
Small. Its open wings measure about 16 to 22 millimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Celypha striana
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Tortricidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Tortricidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Celypha striana (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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