Mottled rustic
The mottled rustic is a brown moth with blotchy front wings and shiny white back wings. It lives across Europe and Asia. It came to Canada by accident and now lives there too.
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Its wings are 32 to 38 millimetres from tip to tip.
People brought it to Canada by mistake. Now it lives on both the east and the west coast there.
The caterpillar is grey brown or dark brown, with a row of dark marks shaped like arrowheads.
There is one family of young each year, and the moths fly from the middle of May to August.
Most asked questions about Mottled rustic
?What does the mottled rustic eat?
Its caterpillars eat low plants like nettles and dandelions.
?Where does the mottled rustic live?
Across Europe and Asia, and now also in Canada.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Caradrina morpheus
- Named by
- Hufnagel, 1766
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Caradrina morpheus (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 Fvlamoen. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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