Garden tortrix
The garden tortrix is a very small moth, with wings only about a centimetre across. Its caterpillars live in gardens and nibble on flowers, fruit plants and herbs. You may meet it in gardens across North America.
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Fun facts
Its caterpillars are light green, but their colour can change depending on which plant they eat.
A full-grown caterpillar is about 1.3 centimetres long, about as long as the moth is wide.
There are several generations each year, so you can see the moths from March to September.
Most asked questions about Garden tortrix
?What does the garden tortrix eat?
Its caterpillars eat strawberries, chrysanthemums, artichokes, citrus and other plants.
?How big is the garden tortrix?
Very small. Its wings are only 1 to 1.5 centimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Clepsis peritana
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Tortricidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Tortricidae
- Lives on
- North America, Europe
- Also known as
- Strawberry garden tortrix
Where the facts come from
- Clepsis peritana (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 Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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