Small phoenix
The small phoenix is a small moth with dark brown wings. Many have a white oval mark in the middle of each front wing, and little orange strokes near the edge. Its back wings are whitish grey with a tiny black heart.
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Fun facts
Its caterpillar is long and thin and can be green or pinkish.
There are two families of young each year, flying in early summer and again in late summer.
It spends the winter as a brownish green pupa.
It likes half-shady places in leafy and mixed woods, and heaths.
Most asked questions about Small phoenix
?What does the small phoenix eat?
Its caterpillars eat mostly willowherbs.
?How big is the small phoenix moth?
Small, with wings about 23 to 27 millimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Ecliptopera silaceata
- Named by
- Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Ecliptopera silaceata (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 Ben Sale from Stevenage, UK. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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