Arched hooktip moth
The arched hooktip is a North American moth with hooked tips on its front wings. Its caterpillars are amazing: they talk to each other with sounds. They drum, scrape and shake on leaves to send messages.
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Fun facts
Its caterpillars make sounds by drumming and scraping with their mouths on a leaf.
They also drag special paddles at their tail end across the leaf, like rowing oars.
The caterpillars build shared silk shelters, and their sounds may call others to join them.
The moths fly from the middle of May to the end of July.
Most asked questions about Arched hooktip moth
?Can caterpillars make sounds?
Yes. Arched hooktip caterpillars drum, scrape and shake on leaves to send messages to each other.
?What does the arched hooktip eat?
Its caterpillars eat paper birch and alder leaves.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Drepana arcuata
- Named by
- Walker, 1855
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Drepanidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Drepanidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Arched hooktip, Masked birch caterpillar
Where the facts come from
- Drepana arcuata (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 Zygy. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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