Common idia moth
The common idia is a small grey moth with thin wavy lines on its wings. It is a litter moth, which means its caterpillars live among fallen leaves. They help to tidy up the forest floor.
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Fun facts
It has some funny other names, like powdered snout and waved tabby.
Each wing has a big pale or orange-brown spot shaped a bit like a kidney.
In the north it flies from May to October, in the south from April to November.
There are two or three families of these moths every year.
Most asked questions about Common idia moth
?What does the common idia caterpillar eat?
Dead leaves. It is a little recycler of the forest floor.
?How big is the common idia moth?
With its wings spread it is about 2 to 3 centimetres wide.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Idia aemula
- Named by
- Hübner, 1813
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Erebidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Erebidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Common idia, Powdered snout, Waved tabby
Where the facts come from
- Idia aemula (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 Mike Boone. CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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