Small blood-vein
Scopula imitaria
The small blood-vein is a small moth with pointy wings. Its wings can be reddish, yellowish or light brown, with thin lines across them. Its back wings have a little point in the middle, like a tiny tail.
Lives in
Southern Europe, North Africa and western Asia, in warm, dry bushy places
Wingspan
1.2 to 2.6 cm (0.47 to 1 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat privet leaves.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 4 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 34 seconds
How big is Small blood-vein compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Small blood-vein about 11 km/h (6.8 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It has two families a year, and the second one is usually smaller.
2
Its caterpillar is very long and thin, with a wrinkly skin.
3
Its eggs start whitish yellow and turn orange.
4
It flies from June to September.
you asked
Most asked questions about Small blood-vein
?What does the small blood-vein eat?
Its caterpillars eat the leaves of privet bushes.
?How big is the small blood-vein?
Its open wings measure about 1.2 to 2.6 cm across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Scopula imitaria
- Named by
- Hübner, 1799
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Scopula imitaria (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 Ben Sale from UK. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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