Nut-tree tussock
The nut-tree tussock is a silvery grey to brownish moth with neat black lines on its wings. Its caterpillar looks like a little hairy brush, with long black hair tufts and reddish tufts on its back. It lives in woods with hazel, oak and beech trees.
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Fun facts
The edge of its wings has a chequered fringe of brown and grey.
In southern Britain there are two families each year, in the north only one.
In the Alps it lives up to 1600 metres high.
In the south of Europe it lives only in the mountains.
Most asked questions about Nut-tree tussock
?What does the nut-tree tussock caterpillar eat?
Leaves of hazel, oak, beech, hornbeam, birch and field maple.
?Where does the nut-tree tussock live?
In Europe and Asia, from Scandinavia and Spain to Lake Baikal in Siberia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Colocasia coryli
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Colocasia coryli (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 Kulac. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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