Soybean looper moth
The soybean looper is a moth from the Americas that travels long distances. Its caterpillar is a looper: it walks by arching its back into a loop. The caterpillars eat many crops, like soybeans, beans, tomatoes and lettuce.
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Fun facts
Its wings are about 3 to 4 centimetres from tip to tip.
It migrates, travelling far from where it hatched.
Mexican free-tailed bats may catch and eat it at night.
In northeastern Mexico it is called falso medidor, the fake measurer.
Most asked questions about Soybean looper moth
?Is the soybean looper harmful?
Not to people. But its caterpillars can damage soybeans and many other crops.
?Why is it called a looper?
Because the caterpillar walks by making a loop with its body, as if it were measuring.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Chrysodeixis includens
- Named by
- Walker, 1858
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Soybean looper
Where the facts come from
- Chrysodeixis includens (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 Russ Ottens, University of Georgia, United States. CC BY 3.0 us, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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