Great brocade
The great brocade is a big grey moth of cool northern lands. Its front wings have a pattern of black and white teeth near the edge. It lives all the way around the top of the world, even in Iceland and Greenland.
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Fun facts
In the mountains of Finland, Germany and Scotland there is a form that is nearly black.
Some scientists think that huge swarms of its caterpillars may have helped end old Viking farms in Greenland.
Its brown caterpillar has yellowish lines and a white stripe along its side.
Most asked questions about Great brocade
?Where does the great brocade live?
In northern Europe, Asia and North America, and also in Iceland and Greenland.
?How big is the great brocade?
It is a big moth, with wings 50 to 60 millimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Eurois occulta
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
- Also known as
- Great gray dart
Where the facts come from
- Eurois occulta (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 Donald Hobern. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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