Lesser cream wave
The lesser cream wave is a small moth with silky white wings dusted with yellow. Thin wavy lines run across its wings like little ripples on water. It loves damp places with lots of grass.
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Fun facts
When the summer is hot and dry while it is growing up, the moth often turns out more yellow, with clearer lines on its wings.
Its tiny egg is shaped like a little barrel with ridges. It starts greenish yellow and after two days turns pale pink with red spots.
During the day it sits in long grass. If you walk past, it flutters up very easily.
In the Alps it lives up to about 1,200 metres high.
In western Europe it flies in summer, from June to August.
Most asked questions about Lesser cream wave
?How big is the lesser cream wave?
Its wings measure about 2.5 centimetres from tip to tip.
?What does the lesser cream wave caterpillar eat?
It eats meadowsweet and valerian.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Scopula immutata
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Scopula immutata (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 James K. Lindsey. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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