Green silver-lines
Pseudoips prasinana
The green silver-lines is a pretty moth with bright yellow green front wings crossed by thin silvery white lines. Its back wings are pale yellow or white. It lives in woods with oak and birch trees.
Lives in
Northern and central Europe and across Russia to Korea and Japan, in woods
Wingspan
3 to 3.5 cm (1.2 to 1.4 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat the leaves of oak, birch and other leafy trees.
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 Green silver-lines 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)
Green silver-lines 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 can make a tiny chirping sound while it flies.
2
The moths fly in early summer, in June and July.
3
Its caterpillar is apple green with a yellow line, and its front segment has a red edge.
you asked
Most asked questions about Green silver-lines
?What does the green silver-lines eat?
Its caterpillars eat leaves of oak, birch and other trees.
?Where can I find the green silver-lines?
In woods across Europe and northern Asia, in June and July.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pseudoips prasinana
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Nolidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nolidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Pseudoips prasinana (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 unknown author. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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