Satin wave
The satin wave is a small white moth whose wings shine like silk. Thin grey lines run across them. It likes warm, sunny places like forest edges, hedges and dry grassland.
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Fun facts
Its tiny oval egg starts light yellow and later turns bright orange with red spots.
Its caterpillar looks wrinkled and is covered in tiny warts.
The moths of the second family each year are a little smaller and whiter underneath.
Its pupa is blackish brown to golden brown, with greenish wing cases, and about 9 millimetres long.
Most asked questions about Satin wave
?How big is the satin wave?
Its wings measure only about 2 to 2.5 centimetres from tip to tip.
?What does the satin wave caterpillar eat?
Low plants such as knotgrass, dandelion and chickweed.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Idaea subsericeata
- Named by
- Haworth, 1809
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Idaea subsericeata (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 Ben Sale from UK. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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