Pearly wood-nymph
Eudryas unio
The pearly wood-nymph is a small night moth from eastern North America. It has a pretty name that sounds like a fairy from a storybook. It flies in early summer.
Lives in
Eastern United States and southern Ontario, south to Texas and eastern Mexico
Wingspan
2.6 to 3.5 cm (1 to 1.4 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting people, so you can watch it up close.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat grapevines, evening primrose, loosestrife and hibiscus.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 6 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 29 seconds
How big is Pearly wood-nymph compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Pearly wood-nymph about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
The moths fly from May to August.
2
Its caterpillars eat garden plants like grapevines and hibiscus.
3
A close relative was once thought to be the same species, until scientists looked closely and found differences.
you asked
Most asked questions about Pearly wood-nymph
?What does the pearly wood-nymph eat?
Its caterpillars eat grapevines, evening primrose, loosestrife and hibiscus.
?How big is the pearly wood-nymph?
Its wingspan is about 26 to 35 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Eudryas unio
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Eudryas unio (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 Jacy Lucier. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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