Tissue moth
Triphosa haesitata
The tissue moth is a moth from North America. Its name makes it sound as thin and soft as a paper tissue. It belongs to the geometer moths.
Lives in
North America
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other geometer moths, its caterpillars eat 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)
Tissue moth about 14 km/h (8.7 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Geometer caterpillars are called inchworms, because they walk by looping their bodies as if measuring the ground.
2
Scientists know two subspecies of the tissue moth.
3
It was first described in 1858 by the French scientist Achille Guenée.
you asked
Most asked questions about Tissue moth
?Where does the tissue moth live?
In North America.
?Is the tissue moth dangerous?
No. It is a harmless moth that cannot bite or sting.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Triphosa haesitata
- Named by
- Guenée, 1858
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- American tissue moth
Where the facts come from
- Triphosa haesitata (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 Wensen Wang. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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