Triangles
Trigonodes hyppasia
The triangles is a pale brown moth with a big black triangle on each front wing. The triangles have white edges, so they are easy to see. It lives in warm places in Africa, Asia and Australia.
Lives in
Africa, South and Southeast Asia, northern Australia and Pacific islands
Wingspan
3 to 4.6 cm (1.2 to 1.8 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat the leaves of beans, soybeans, alfalfa and some grasses.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 8 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 25 seconds
How big is Triangles 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)
Triangles about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its name comes from the black triangles on its wings.
2
Its eggs are olive green with rusty red speckles.
3
Young caterpillars are green with purple brown lines, and older ones turn yellowish.
4
It makes its cocoon from white silk among leaves.
you asked
Most asked questions about Triangles
?Why is it called the triangles?
Because it has big black triangle patches on its front wings.
?How big is the triangles moth?
Its open wings measure about 3 to 4.6 cm across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Trigonodes hyppasia
- Named by
- Cramer, 1779
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Erebidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Erebidae
- Lives on
- Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Semi-looper
Where the facts come from
- Trigonodes hyppasia (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 Arthur Chapman. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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