Apple looper
The apple looper is a tiny moth from Australia and New Zealand. Its caterpillar is a looper: it walks by bending its body into a loop and then stretching out again. The moth itself is so small it would fit on your fingertip.
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Fun facts
With its wings spread out it is only about 1.5 centimetres wide.
It is the only species in its genus, so it has no close sisters.
Its caterpillars are not fussy and eat plants from very different families, from sunflowers to wattle trees.
Most asked questions about Apple looper
?How big is the apple looper?
Tiny. Its wings measure only about 15 millimetres from tip to tip.
?What does the apple looper caterpillar eat?
Leaves of sunflowers, St John's wort, clematis and wattle trees.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Phrissogonus laticostata
- Named by
- Walker, 1862
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Phrissogonus (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 dhobern. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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