The miller
The miller is a pale moth, from almost white to grey, with little black crescent marks on its front wings. It looks as if it has been dusted with flour, like a miller who grinds grain. Its caterpillar is green and wrapped in long, silky white hair.
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Fun facts
Its long caterpillar hairs curl over its sides like a soft fluffy coat.
It sometimes spends two whole winters as a pupa before it becomes a moth.
It lives as far north as the Arctic Circle in Finland and Norway.
It flies at night in summer.
Most asked questions about The miller
?Is the miller moth caterpillar dangerous?
No. It looks very hairy, but it is harmless.
?Why is it called the miller?
Its pale, dusty looking wings remind people of a miller covered in flour.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Acronicta leporina
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa
Where the facts come from
- Miller (moth) (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 Donald Hobern from Canberra, Australia. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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