French red underwing
Catocala elocata
The French red underwing is a moth with red back wings, which is how it got its name. It lives in warm parts of Europe, North Africa and Asia. Like most moths, it flies at night.
Lives in
Central and southern Europe, North Africa, Turkey and central Asia
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat the leaves of poplar and willow trees.
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)
French red underwing about 14 km/h (8.7 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It belongs to a group of moths called underwings, named after their colourful back wings.
2
Its caterpillars grow up on poplar and willow trees.
3
It lives as far east as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
you asked
Most asked questions about French red underwing
?What does the French red underwing eat?
Its caterpillars eat poplar and willow leaves.
?Where does the French red underwing live?
In central and southern Europe, North Africa and parts of Asia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Catocala elocata
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Erebidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Erebidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Catocala elocata (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. Egg assumed (based on copyright claims).. CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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