July highflyer moth
The July highflyer is a moth that comes in many colours. Some are olive green, others grey, greyish brown or reddish brown, with dark wavy bands across the wings. No two look quite the same.
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Fun facts
It flies both by day and at night, and it is drawn to lights.
It spends the winter as a tiny egg.
The mother moth lays her eggs in small groups on the underside of bilberry leaves.
It is extremely common in northern Europe, but in the south it is almost missing.
The grown-up moths fly from May to August.
Most asked questions about July highflyer moth
?How big is the July highflyer?
Its wings measure about 2.5 to 3 centimetres from tip to tip.
?What does the July highflyer caterpillar eat?
Leaves of willow, hazel, rose, aspen and bilberry.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hydriomena furcata
- Named by
- Thunberg, 1784
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
- Also known as
- July highflyer
Where the facts come from
- Hydriomena furcata (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 Felix Riegel. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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