White-striped black
Trichodezia albovittata
The white-striped black is a small black moth with a white stripe across its wings. It lives in North American woods. Its caterpillars eat jewelweed, a plant with juicy stems.
Lives in
North America, from Alaska to Newfoundland and south to North Carolina and California
Wingspan
2 to 2.5 cm (0.79 to 0.98 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat the leaves of jewelweed plants.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 4 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 34 seconds
How big is White-striped black compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
White-striped black about 11 km/h (6.8 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It flies from April to September.
2
It lives all the way from Alaska in the far north to North Carolina in the south.
3
It belongs to the geometer moths, whose caterpillars walk by looping their bodies.
you asked
Most asked questions about White-striped black
?What does the white-striped black moth eat?
Its caterpillars eat jewelweed.
?How big is the white-striped black moth?
It is small, with wings about 2 to 2.5 centimetres wide.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Trichodezia albovittata
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- White-striped black moth
Where the facts come from
- Trichodezia albovittata (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 Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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