Shaded broad-bar
Scotopteryx chenopodiata
The shaded broad-bar is a moth with a wide dark brown band across the middle of its front wings. Its colour can be yellow brown, red brown or grey. It flies in meadows in summer.
Lives in
Europe and across Asia to Siberia and the Russian Far East, in meadows
Wingspan
2.5 to 3 cm (0.98 to 1.2 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat meadow plants like knapweed, scabious, thyme and vetch.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 5 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 32 seconds
How big is Shaded broad-bar compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Shaded broad-bar about 12 km/h (7.5 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
The females are usually more yellowish than the males.
2
Its caterpillar is yellowish grey or slate grey.
3
It flies from June to August.
4
Some of these moths are much darker than others, almost smoky brown.
you asked
Most asked questions about Shaded broad-bar
?What does the shaded broad-bar eat?
Its caterpillars eat many meadow plants, such as knapweed, scabious and vetch.
?How big is the shaded broad-bar?
Its open wings measure about 2.5 to 3 cm across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Scotopteryx chenopodiata
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Scotopteryx chenopodiata (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 Quartl. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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