Flounced rustic
Luperina testacea
The flounced rustic is a brownish grey night moth from Europe. Its back wings are whitish with dark veins. Its colours change a lot: some are pale grey, others almost black.
Lives in
Europe, Turkey and Armenia, in grassy places
Wingspan
3 to 3.5 cm (1.2 to 1.4 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat grasses and grain plants.
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 29 seconds
How big is Flounced rustic 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)
Flounced rustic about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It flies from the middle of summer to early autumn.
2
Its caterpillar is a dirty white colour with a brown head and no stripes.
3
Some flounced rustics have a black streak joining two lines on their front wings.
you asked
Most asked questions about Flounced rustic
?What does the flounced rustic caterpillar eat?
Grasses and grain plants.
?When does the flounced rustic fly?
From mid-July to early October.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Luperina testacea
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Luperina testacea (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 Fvlamoen. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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