Small fan-footed wave
The small fan-footed wave is a little creamy white moth with thin brown wavy bands. It is so small and pale that it is easy to miss. Each wing has a tiny black dot, like a full stop.
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Fun facts
It mostly flies at night and likes to come to lamps, but sometimes it flutters a short way by day.
The caterpillar spends the winter as a caterpillar and only turns into a moth the next year.
In the Alps it lives as high as about 1,700 metres up the mountains.
The caterpillar is long and thin, brownish grey with a white stripe on each side.
Most asked questions about Small fan-footed wave
?When can I see the small fan-footed wave?
The moths fly from June to August, mostly at night.
?What does its caterpillar eat?
Many different plants, such as dandelion, oak, plantain and brambles.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Idaea biselata
- Named by
- Hufnagel, 1767
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Small fan-footed wave (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 No machine-readable author provided. Svdmolen assumed (based on copyright claims).. CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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