Carrot seed moth
Sitochroa palealis
The carrot seed moth is a pale moth that lives in Europe. Its caterpillars love plants from the carrot family. In 2002 the first one was found in the United States too.
Lives in
Europe, and now also the United States
Wingspan
2.6 to 3.4 cm (1 to 1.3 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat wild carrot, fennel, hogweed and other plants from the carrot family.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 6 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 29 seconds
How big is Carrot seed moth compared to YOU?
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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)
Carrot seed moth about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
The grown-up moths fly in June and July.
2
Cultivated carrots are a kind of wild carrot, one of the plants its caterpillars eat.
3
The first carrot seed moth in the United States was reported in 2002.
you asked
Most asked questions about Carrot seed moth
?What does the carrot seed moth eat?
Its caterpillars eat wild carrot, fennel, hogweed and similar plants.
?Is the carrot seed moth harmful?
It is harmless to people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Sitochroa palealis
- Named by
- Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Crambidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Crambidae
- Lives on
- Europe, North America
Where the facts come from
- Sitochroa palealis (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 No machine-readable author provided. Svdmolen assumed (based on copyright claims).. CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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