Beautiful wood-nymph
Eudryas grata
The beautiful wood-nymph is a moth with a clever disguise. When it sits still, it looks just like a bird dropping. Hungry birds fly right past it.
Lives in
The eastern United States
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
The caterpillar eats leaves of grape vines, hops, Virginia creeper and buttonbush.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Beautiful wood-nymph about 14 km/h (8.7 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Looking like bird poo keeps it safe, because no bird wants to eat that.
2
Its caterpillars like grape vines, so it often lives near gardens with grapes.
3
It lives across almost the whole eastern United States.
you asked
Most asked questions about Beautiful wood-nymph
?Why does the beautiful wood-nymph look like bird poop?
It is a disguise. Birds do not try to eat something that looks like a dropping.
?What does the beautiful wood-nymph eat?
Its caterpillar eats grape, hop and Virginia creeper leaves.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Eudryas grata
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Eudryas grata (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 Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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