White-dotted prominent
The white-dotted prominent is a tan or dull orange moth with two tiny silver dots on each front wing. It has a pointy tuft of hair on its back between the wings. It flies at night and loves bright lamps.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
How big is White-dotted prominent compared to YOU?
Just maths in your browser. Nothing is saved or sent anywhere.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
Its caterpillar is blue green at first and turns bright green before it becomes a pupa.
The caterpillar has a big head, yellow jaws and yellow stripes, and is sometimes called the green oak caterpillar.
The moths start flying soon after dusk and go back to rest before dawn.
It spends the winter as a pupa and comes out as a moth in spring.
Most asked questions about White-dotted prominent
?What does the white-dotted prominent eat?
Its caterpillar eats the leaves of oaks and many other trees.
?How big is the white-dotted prominent?
Its wings are about 5 centimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Nadata gibbosa
- Named by
- Smith, 1797
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Notodontidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Notodontidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Rough prominent, Tawny prominent
Where the facts come from
- Rough prominent (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 Megan McCarty. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
If we got something wrong, sorry, we are bug fans, not a science journal. Tell us at [email protected] and we will fix it.
Bug Wiki honey jar For grown-ups: Bug Wiki is free, with no ads and no tracking. A small tip helps keep it online.Leave a tip
Atlas moth
Luna moth
Hummingbird hawk-moth
Domestic silk moth
Isabella tiger moth
Polyphemus moth
Neotredecim periodical cicada
Fairy-ring longhorn beetle
Plaited door-snail
Clustered midrib gall wasp
Eurasian leaflitter crab spider
Cape docile scorpion