Common quaker
The common quaker is a plump moth with grey to orange brown wings. On each front wing it has two big round spots with a thin pale ring around them. It is one of the first moths to fly in spring.
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Fun facts
It flies at night in early spring, in March and April.
It likes lamps, and it also comes to sweet sugary drinks that people paint on trees to watch moths.
Its green caterpillar is covered in lots of tiny yellowish white dots.
It spends the winter as a pupa.
Most asked questions about Common quaker
?When can you see the common quaker?
In early spring, mostly in March and April, flying at night.
?What does the common quaker eat?
The moth drinks nectar from spring flowers. The caterpillar eats tree leaves.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Orthosia cerasi
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1775
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Common Quaker (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 Olaf Leillinger. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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