Cloaked minor
The cloaked minor is a small moth that flies in summer. On many of them, each front wing has a reddish-brown part near the body and a pale part at the tip, as if it wears a little cloak. Its caterpillars live on grass.
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Fun facts
Its colours change so much from moth to moth that it can look like several of its cousins.
Sometimes experts can only tell it apart from a close cousin by looking at tiny body parts under a microscope.
In Belgium and the Netherlands it flies from late June to the middle of September.
It has just one family of babies each year.
Most asked questions about Cloaked minor
?Is the cloaked minor dangerous?
No. It is a small moth that cannot bite or sting.
?What do cloaked minor caterpillars eat?
Different kinds of grass, such as tufted hair-grass and fescue.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Mesoligia furuncula
- Named by
- Denis & Schiffermüller
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Mesoligia furuncula (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 Adrian Tync. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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