Marbled white-spot
The marbled white-spot is a small moth with a white, grey and black marbled pattern on its front wings. It likes forest clearings and the sunny edges of woods. It lives in a long band from Europe to Japan.
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Fun facts
Its caterpillars are green when young and later turn yellowish with a broad reddish stripe.
In the Alps it lives up to 1,000 metres high.
It flies from May to July, depending on where it lives.
A kind of fly lays its eggs on the caterpillars, and the fly babies grow inside them.
Most asked questions about Marbled white-spot
?What does the marbled white-spot eat?
Its caterpillars eat grasses.
?Where can you find the marbled white-spot?
In forest clearings, at woodland edges and on dry grassy slopes in Europe and Asia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Deltote pygarga
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Protodeltote pygarga (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 User:Jerzystrzelecki|Jerzy Strzelecki. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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