Lesser pearl
The lesser pearl is a pale yellow moth with three thin brown lines across its front wings. It likes open, grassy places that are dry or a little damp. Its back wings are whitish yellow, like a soft, pale pearl.
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Fun facts
Its wings are about 3 centimetres from tip to tip.
The caterpillar is green with a light brown head and grows to about 3 centimetres long.
It flies at night and is attracted to lamps.
It spends the winter as a caterpillar in a little shelter and turns into a pupa the next spring.
In some places there is one family of young each year, in others two.
Most asked questions about Lesser pearl
?What does the lesser pearl eat?
Its caterpillars eat low plants like thistles, violets, docks and nettles.
?Where does the lesser pearl live?
In most of Europe and across Asia to Japan, in open grassy places.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Sitochroa verticalis
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Crambidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Crambidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Sitochroa verticalis (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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