Mottled beauty
The mottled beauty is a moth with speckled grey or light brown wings, sprinkled with black. Some are almost black all over. Its wings have wavy lines that help it vanish against tree bark.
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Fun facts
Its wings are about 3 to 4.5 centimetres from tip to tip.
Almost every mottled beauty looks a little different, from pale grey to nearly black.
Dark ones are common in towns and cities with factories.
In Britain it flies at night in June and July and comes to lights.
It spends the winter as a small caterpillar.
Most asked questions about Mottled beauty
?Is the mottled beauty harmful?
No. It is a harmless moth that hides on tree trunks.
?How big is a mottled beauty?
Its wings are about 30 to 45 millimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Alcis repandata
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Mottled beauty (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 Ben Sale from UK. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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