Red-green carpet
The red-green carpet is a moth with greyish green front wings that have a reddish glow. Its caterpillar is long, thin and green with little red marks. Every one looks a little different.
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Fun facts
Its front wings are pointed.
It looks a lot like the autumn green carpet, but that one has no red tinge.
The caterpillar has red tips on its legs and on the points at its back end.
The pupa is yellow-brown with a faint purple shine and black dots.
Most asked questions about Red-green carpet
?What does the red-green carpet caterpillar eat?
Leaves of trees and bushes like oak, willow, aspen, rowan and wild rose.
?What does the red-green carpet look like?
It has greyish green front wings with a reddish tinge and a dark band in the middle.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Chloroclysta siterata
- Named by
- Hufnagel, 1767
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Chloroclysta siterata (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 unknown author. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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