Common spring moth
Heliomata cycladata
The common spring moth is a small moth from eastern North America. As its name says, it is one of the moths you can meet early in the year, already in March. Its caterpillars live on locust trees.
Lives in
Eastern North America, from southern Canada to Georgia and Alabama
Wingspan
2 cm (0.79 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It is a little moth that cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
The caterpillars eat the leaves of black locust and honey locust trees.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 3 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 38 seconds
How big is Common spring moth compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Common spring moth about 9.9 km/h (6.2 mph)
A kid running fast 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 only about 2 centimetres from tip to tip.
2
The moths fly from March to July.
3
It lives in many places, from Ontario and Quebec in Canada down to South Carolina, Georgia and Arkansas.
4
Its caterpillars only eat two kinds of trees, black locust and honey locust.
you asked
Most asked questions about Common spring moth
?How big is the common spring moth?
Small. Its wings are about 2 centimetres across.
?What does the common spring moth caterpillar eat?
Leaves of black locust and honey locust trees.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Heliomata cycladata
- Named by
- Grote & Robinson, 1866
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Heliomata cycladata (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 Cyndy Sims Parr. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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