Vine's rustic
Hoplodrina ambigua
Vine's rustic is a plain, greyish yellow-brown moth with dark lines on its wings. It looks so much like two other moths that experts often need a microscope to tell them apart. It flies from spring to autumn.
Lives in
Central and southern Europe, North Africa, Russia, Siberia and the Near East
Wingspan
3.2 to 3.4 cm (1.3 to 1.3 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat many soft plants, like beet, artichoke, alfalfa and dandelion.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 6 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 29 seconds
How big is Vine's rustic compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Vine's rustic about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
There are two families each year, flying from early May to the middle of October.
2
Its caterpillar is clay coloured with a fine white line down its back.
3
Its front wings are about 1.5 centimetres long.
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Most asked questions about Vine's rustic
?What does the Vine's rustic caterpillar eat?
Many soft plants, such as beet, artichoke, alfalfa and dandelion.
?How big is Vine's rustic?
With its wings spread it is about 3 to 3.5 centimetres wide.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hoplodrina ambigua
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Hoplodrina ambigua (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 picture taken by Olaf Leillinger. CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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