Tawny-barred angle
The tawny-barred angle is a small moth with purple-grey wings, dark stripes and a wide orange-yellow band near the edges. Its wings have a little notch and a tiny point, which gives them an angled look. It lives in pine and mixed forests.
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Fun facts
Its caterpillar is green with pale stripes, so it looks just like a pine needle. That is a great way to hide from birds.
It lives far in the north, even above the Arctic Circle, and high up in the Alps.
The moths fly from May to September.
It belongs to the family of moths whose caterpillars walk by making a loop with their body, like measuring the ground.
Most asked questions about Tawny-barred angle
?What does the tawny-barred angle eat?
Its caterpillars eat the needles of conifer trees like Scots pine.
?How big is the tawny-barred angle?
Its wings measure about 22 to 27 millimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Macaria liturata
- Named by
- Clerck, 1759
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Macaria liturata (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 Vermeer at Dutch Wikipedia. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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