Gold spot
The gold spot is a moth with deep golden brown wings that shine like metal. On each front wing it has big silvery spots, as if someone painted them on with glitter.
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Fun facts
It flies from June to September, depending on where it lives.
Its caterpillar is green with white stripes along its body.
To turn into a moth, the caterpillar folds a blade of grass in half and spins a whitish cocoon underneath it.
Its back wings are a dull bronze colour with a pinkish fringe.
Most asked questions about Gold spot
?Where does the gold spot live?
All the way from Ireland to Japan, across Europe and Asia.
?What does the gold spot eat?
Its caterpillars eat sedges, yellow iris, bur-reed and other plants that like wet places.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Plusia festucae
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Plusia festucae (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 Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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