Yellow-winged pareuchaetes moth
Pareuchaetes insulata
The yellow-winged pareuchaetes is a moth from warm places around the Caribbean Sea. It belongs to the tiger moth family. You can find it on islands like Cuba and in the south of the United States.
Lives in
Cuba and the Caribbean islands, the southern United States and Central America
Wingspan
2.6 to 3.8 cm (1 to 1.5 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat several plants, including Siam weed and ageratum, a garden flower.
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 27 seconds
How big is Yellow-winged pareuchaetes moth 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)
Yellow-winged pareuchaetes moth about 14 km/h (8.7 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Grown-up moths have been seen in every month of the year.
2
It is easiest to see from April to November.
3
It was first described by scientists in 1855.
you asked
Most asked questions about Yellow-winged pareuchaetes moth
?Where does the yellow-winged pareuchaetes live?
In Cuba and other Caribbean islands, the southern United States and Central America.
?How big is the yellow-winged pareuchaetes?
Its wings measure about 2.5 to 4 centimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pareuchaetes insulata
- Named by
- Walker, 1855
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Erebidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Erebidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Yellow-winged pareuchaetes
Where the facts come from
- Pareuchaetes insulata (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 Susan Blayney. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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