Bloxworth snout
The Bloxworth snout is a moth with a long pointy snout at the front of its head. The female is whitish and the male is grey, both with wavy dark lines across their wings. It loves warm places around the Mediterranean Sea.
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Fun facts
Sometimes it flies far north on its own, and now and then it stays and makes a new home there.
There can be two or more families of it in one year.
Its caterpillar is green with a dark line down its back.
Little tufts of raised dark scales stick up on its front wings.
Most asked questions about Bloxworth snout
?What does the Bloxworth snout eat?
Its caterpillars eat pellitory and stinging nettles.
?How can you tell a male from a female Bloxworth snout?
The female has whitish front wings and the male has grey ones.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hypena obsitalis
- Named by
- Hübner, 1813
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Erebidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Erebidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Hypena obsitalis (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 gailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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