Oak hook-tip
The oak hook-tip is an orange brown moth with thin yellow lines across its wings. The tips of its front wings are bent like little hooks. Its caterpillars love oak trees.
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Fun facts
There are usually two families each year. The second one has smaller, lighter coloured moths.
It mostly flies at night and comes to lights, but sometimes it flies in the daytime too.
Its caterpillar is brown with yellow marks and has a pointy, tapered tail end.
It spends the winter as a pupa.
It is common in England and Wales, but it has only recently reached Ireland.
Most asked questions about Oak hook-tip
?Why is it called the oak hook-tip?
Its caterpillars mostly eat oak leaves, and the tips of its front wings are hooked.
?Is the oak hook-tip dangerous?
No. It is a harmless moth.
?How big is the oak hook-tip?
Its wings measure about 3 centimetres across in males and about 3.5 centimetres in females.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Watsonalla binaria
- Named by
- Hufnagel, 1767
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Drepanidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Drepanidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Oak hook-tip (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 Olei. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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