Bordered apamea moth
The bordered apamea is a brown night moth with quiet, blurry markings. Near the base of each front wing it has one thin black stripe. Its back wings are greyish brown with dark lines.
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Fun facts
The thin black stripe at the base of its wing gives it its other name, the rustic shoulder-knot.
It flies at night and is drawn to lights and to sweet, sugary things.
It spends the winter as a caterpillar and even nibbles some food on mild winter days.
When the caterpillar is very young, in autumn, it feeds inside grains of corn.
In the north of England there is a very dark form of this moth.
Most asked questions about Bordered apamea moth
?How big is the bordered apamea?
Its wings measure about 3.5 to 4 centimetres from tip to tip.
?What does the bordered apamea caterpillar eat?
Grasses and grain crops like oats, barley, wheat and rye.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Apamea sordens
- Named by
- Hufnagel, 1766
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
- Also known as
- Rustic shoulder-knot
Where the facts come from
- Apamea sordens (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 dhobern. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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