Beaded chestnut
The beaded chestnut is an autumn moth with reddish brown wings, like a shiny chestnut. A row of little dark spots along the edge of its wing looks like beads. It flies on cool autumn nights when most other moths are gone.
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Fun facts
Its colour changes a lot from moth to moth: bright rusty red, dull brown, yellowish, grey or even bluish lilac.
Its eggs are yellowish when laid and then turn olive brown.
The caterpillar is green with tiny white dots, thin white lines on its back and a wide white stripe on each side.
The moths fly in September and October.
Most asked questions about Beaded chestnut
?When does the beaded chestnut fly?
In autumn, in September and October.
?How big is the beaded chestnut?
Its wings measure about 30 to 35 millimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Agrochola lychnidis
- Named by
- Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Agrochola lychnidis (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 This image is created by user Ernest van Asseldonk at Waarneming.nl , a source of nature observations in the Netherlands.. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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