Svensson's copper underwing
Svensson's copper underwing is a brown moth that hides a shiny copper colour on its back wings. When it opens its wings, the copper glows. It flies at night and loves anything sugary.
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Fun facts
It looks almost exactly like the copper underwing. You can tell them apart only by the underside of the back wings.
The girls are usually bigger than the boys.
It spends the winter as an egg.
It flies from July to September and is strongly drawn to sugar.
Most asked questions about Svensson's copper underwing
?What does Svensson's copper underwing eat?
Its caterpillars eat leaves of trees and bushes like oak, willow, maple and lilac.
?How is it different from the copper underwing?
Under its back wings, it is evenly coloured. The copper underwing has a pale middle with dark edges there.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Amphipyra berbera
- Named by
- Rungs, 1949
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Svensson's copper underwing (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 Ilia Ustyantsev from Russia. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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