The snout
The snout is a grey brown moth with dark lines across its front wings. It is called the snout because the front of its head sticks out like a little nose. You can find it near nettles, where its caterpillars live.
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Fun facts
Its caterpillar is velvety green and can munch stinging nettles without any trouble.
Most females are brownish, while most males are grey.
It lives as far north as the Arctic Circle and as high as 1600 metres up in the mountains.
In many places there are two families of snouts each year, flying from May to September.
Most asked questions about The snout
?What does the snout moth eat?
Its caterpillars eat stinging nettles, hops and similar plants.
?When can you see the snout moth?
From May to September, often near patches of nettles.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hypena proboscidalis
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Erebidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Erebidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Hypena proboscidalis (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 Lsadonkey. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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