Brown rustic
Rusina ferruginea
The brown rustic is a dark brown moth from Europe and Asia. Along the front edge of each front wing it has a row of tiny white marks, like little dots of paint. Its back wings are a lighter yellow brown.
Lives in
Europe and east across Asia to the Sayan Mountains
Wingspan
3.2 to 4 cm (1.3 to 1.6 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It is a moth that cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
The caterpillars eat low plants, including docks.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 7 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 27 seconds
How big is Brown rustic compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Brown rustic about 14 km/h (8.7 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its wings are 32 to 40 millimetres from tip to tip.
2
The grown caterpillar is reddish brown, with a very thin pale line down its back and blackish marks near its tail end.
3
The moths fly in June and July.
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Most asked questions about Brown rustic
?What does the brown rustic eat?
Its caterpillars eat low plants such as docks.
?When does the brown rustic fly?
In June and July.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Rusina ferruginea
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Rusina ferruginea (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 dhobern. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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