Rose hooktip
Oreta rosea
The rose hooktip is a pretty moth from North America with a little hooked tip on each front wing. It lives in damp forests with leafy trees. It has two families each summer.
Lives in
North America, from Canada to Florida and eastern Texas, in damp leafy forests
Wingspan
2.5 to 3.4 cm (0.98 to 1.3 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat the leaves of leafy trees and bushes, like birch and viburnum.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 6 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 29 seconds
How big is Rose hooktip 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)
Rose hooktip about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its wings are about 2.5 to 3.5 centimetres from tip to tip.
2
It flies from May to September.
3
Its caterpillars can be found from July to October.
you asked
Most asked questions about Rose hooktip
?What does the rose hooktip eat?
Its caterpillars eat birch and viburnum leaves.
?Where does the rose hooktip live?
In damp leafy forests across Canada and the eastern United States.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Oreta rosea
- Named by
- Walker, 1855
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Drepanidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Drepanidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Rose hooktip moth
Where the facts come from
- Oreta rosea (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 JB Sullivan, Research Collection of J. B. Sullivan. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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