Light brown apple moth
The light brown apple moth is a small brown leafroller moth from Australia. Its green caterpillar rolls leaves together with silk and hides inside to eat. It looks so much like its cousins that scientists sometimes need DNA tests to tell them apart.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
Its caterpillars have been found eating more than 250 kinds of plants in New Zealand.
One female can lay hundreds of eggs, in groups of 3 to 150.
It has no winter rest, so there can be three to five generations in a year.
In Hawaii it is even useful, because it eats some weeds like gorse and blackberry.
Most asked questions about Light brown apple moth
?What does the light brown apple moth eat?
Its caterpillars eat leaves and fruit of hundreds of plants, from apples to strawberries.
?Where does the light brown apple moth come from?
From Australia. People carried it to New Zealand, Britain, Hawaii and California.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Epiphyas postvittana
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Tortricidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Tortricidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania, Europe, North America
- Also known as
- LBAM
Where the facts come from
- Light brown apple moth (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 Donald Hobern. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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