Broom moth
The broom moth is a reddish brown moth with darker mottles and a little white triangle on each front wing. Its caterpillar is easy to spot. It is purple brown or green with four bright yellow stripes along its body.
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Fun facts
It lives far in the north, even past the Arctic Circle.
In the Alps it can be found up to 2,000 metres high.
It flies from the middle of May to August, with two families of young in one year.
Some broom moths are much paler, and some are dark purplish grey.
Most asked questions about Broom moth
?What does the broom moth caterpillar eat?
Many plants, such as heather, broom, bracken, bramble, willow and even larch.
?What does the broom moth caterpillar look like?
It is purple brown or green with four bright yellow stripes.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Ceramica pisi
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Ceramica pisi (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 Dumi. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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