The geometrician
Grammodes stolida
The geometrician is a moth with neat stripes on its wings, as if someone drew them with a ruler. Its front wings are dark brown with a pale yellowish band, and its back wings have a white band. It is a great traveller.
Lives in
Africa, southern Europe, most of Asia and Australia, and it flies north to England and Finland
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat the leaves of brambles, oaks and other plants.
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)
The geometrician about 14 km/h (8.7 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Every year some of them fly north as far as England, Denmark and Finland.
2
It has many families of babies each year.
3
The grown-ups can be seen flying from February to October.
4
Its caterpillar is reddish yellow with fine black stripes.
you asked
Most asked questions about The geometrician
?Where does the geometrician live?
In Africa, southern Europe, Asia and Australia. Some fly north into Europe.
?What does the geometrician caterpillar eat?
Leaves of brambles, oaks and some other plants.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Grammodes stolida
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1775
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Erebidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Erebidae
- Lives on
- Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Geometrician
Where the facts come from
- Grammodes stolida (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 JMK. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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