Beet webworm moth
Loxostege sticticalis
The beet webworm moth is a small brown moth. No two look quite the same: some are light brown, some dark or reddish, and some have almost no pattern at all. Most have a light square spot in the middle of each front wing.
Lives in
Europe, Asia and North America
Wingspan
2.4 to 2.9 cm (0.94 to 1.1 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless to people, but its caterpillars can harm sugar beet and tobacco crops.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat low plants like mugwort, beet and goosefoot.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 5 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 32 seconds
How big is Beet webworm moth compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Beet webworm moth about 12 km/h (7.5 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its caterpillars can become a pest on sugar beet and tobacco fields.
2
Depending on where it lives, it flies from May to September.
3
The undersides of its wings are yellowish with broad brown bands.
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Most asked questions about Beet webworm moth
?What does the beet webworm eat?
Its caterpillars eat plants like mugwort, beet and goosefoot.
?How big is the beet webworm moth?
Its wings measure about 24 to 29 millimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Loxostege sticticalis
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1761
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Crambidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Crambidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
- Also known as
- Beet webworm
Where the facts come from
- Loxostege sticticalis (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 Adrian Tync. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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