Crepuscular burnet
The crepuscular burnet is a pretty moth with bluish-black front wings. Each front wing has six red spots ringed with white or yellow. Its back wings are red with a black border.
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Fun facts
It comes in more than 20 different forms, so it is very hard to describe just one.
A rare form has straw-yellow spots and back wings instead of red ones.
Some have a red belt around the tummy.
The caterpillar is light green with a row of black triangles on its sides.
It turns into a pupa inside a white or yellowish egg-shaped cocoon.
Most asked questions about Crepuscular burnet
?Where does the crepuscular burnet live?
In warm, dry grassland and on dry slopes in most of Europe, North Africa and western Asia.
?How big is the crepuscular burnet?
Its wings measure 30 to 35 millimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Zygaena carniolica
- Named by
- Scopoli, 1763
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Zygaenidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Zygaenidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
- Also known as
- Eastern burnet
Where the facts come from
- Zygaena carniolica (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 Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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