Hübner's wasp moth
Amata huebneri
Hübner's wasp moth is a moth dressed up as a wasp. It is black with yellow bands on its body, and its wings have clear see-through windows. Birds think it can sting and leave it alone.
Lives in
Southeast Asia, New Guinea and northern Australia, in warm tropical places
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It only looks like a wasp, it cannot sting.
What does it eat?
The caterpillars eat leaves of rice, sweet potato and some weeds.
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)
Hübner's wasp moth about 14 km/h (8.7 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Copying the look of a dangerous animal is called mimicry.
2
Its family are the tiger moths, whose caterpillars are often called woolly bears.
3
It was first described in 1829.
you asked
Most asked questions about Hübner's wasp moth
?Is Hübner's wasp moth a wasp?
No. It is a harmless moth that looks like a wasp.
?Where does Hübner's wasp moth live?
In the tropics from Southeast Asia to northern Australia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Amata huebneri
- Named by
- Boisduval, 1829
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Erebidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Erebidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Amata huebneri (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 Graham Winterflood. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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