Vestal
The vestal is a small, creamy yellow moth with a pink or brown stripe running across its wings. When it rests, it folds its wings together like a little tent. It is a traveller that flies long distances to new places.
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Fun facts
The caterpillar looks just like a little twig, so it is very hard to find.
How pink its stripe becomes depends on how warm it was while the moth was growing inside its pupa.
It flies at night and likes to come to lamps.
It needs warm weather to breed, so it lays its eggs in southern Europe and North Africa.
Its eggs are yellowish with little red spots.
Most asked questions about Vestal
?Is the vestal moth dangerous?
No. It is a small moth that cannot bite or sting.
?How big is a vestal moth?
Its wings are about 1.6 to 2.8 centimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Rhodometra sacraria
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1767
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Africa, South America
Where the facts come from
- Rhodometra sacraria (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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