Oak lantern
Carcina quercana
The oak lantern is a small, pretty moth with pale orange-brown front wings tinged with purple. It has yellow patches and a bright yellow fringe along its wings. Its caterpillars live on oak and beech trees.
Lives in
Europe, and recently also British Columbia and Washington in North America
Wingspan
1.6 to 2 cm (0.63 to 0.79 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat the leaves of trees like oak and beech.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 3 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 38 seconds
How big is Oak lantern compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Oak lantern about 9.9 km/h (6.2 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its back wings are pale yellowish with a rosy tip.
2
Its caterpillar is pale green with a darker line along its back.
3
It has only recently arrived in North America.
you asked
Most asked questions about Oak lantern
?What does the oak lantern eat?
Its caterpillars eat the leaves of trees like oak and beech.
?How big is the oak lantern?
Its wings measure about 16 to 20 millimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Carcina quercana
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Depressariidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Depressariidae
- Lives on
- Europe, North America
- Also known as
- Long-horned flat-body, Oak-skeletonizer moth
Where the facts come from
- Carcina quercana (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 Donald Hobern from Copenhagen, Denmark. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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