Red-necked footman
The red-necked footman is a small, almost black moth with a bright orange-red collar behind its head. The tip of its body is golden yellow. It folds its wings tightly around its body, with neat square ends.
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Fun facts
Its caterpillar has a black head with a bold white stripe on each side.
The caterpillar has tiny reddish yellow bumps with black hairs on each body ring.
In the daytime the moths like to rest on long fir branches hanging over woodland paths.
It spends the winter as a shiny reddish brown pupa hidden in moss and fallen leaves.
It mostly flies at night, but sometimes also by day.
Most asked questions about Red-necked footman
?What does the red-necked footman eat?
Its caterpillars eat lichens growing on trees.
?Where does the red-necked footman live?
In woods across Europe and northern Asia, especially in spruce and fir trees.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Atolmis rubricollis
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Erebidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Erebidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Atolmis rubricollis (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 Syrio. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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