Glover's silkmoth
Hyalophora gloveri
Glover's silkmoth is a big, beautiful silk moth from western North America. Its wings are about as wide as a grown-up's hand. Like many silk moths, it does not eat at all once it is grown up.
Lives in
The Rocky Mountains, the northern Great Plains, the Canadian prairies and northern Mexico
Wingspan
10 cm (3.9 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
The grown-up moth does not eat. Its caterpillars eat leaves of willow, silver buffaloberry and Russian olive.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
✋wings as wide as your hand⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 17 seconds
How big is Glover's silkmoth compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Glover's silkmoth about 22 km/h (14 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its wings measure about 10 cm across.
2
Some scientists think it is a kind of another silk moth, not a species of its own.
3
It lives as far north as central Alberta in Canada.
you asked
Most asked questions about Glover's silkmoth
?How big is Glover's silkmoth?
It is big. Its open wings measure about 10 cm across.
?What does Glover's silkmoth eat?
The grown-up does not eat. Its caterpillars eat willow and other shrub leaves.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hyalophora gloveri
- Named by
- Strecker, 1872
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Saturniidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Saturniidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Hyalophora gloveri (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 Matthew Gerke. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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