Coronet
Craniophora ligustri
Name means: “the little crown, after the crown-shaped pale patch on its wing”
The coronet is a dark moth with a greenish shine on its wings. Near the tip of each front wing it has a pale patch shaped a bit like a little crown. Its body near the head is bright whitish.
Lives in
Europe and Asia, from Britain to Japan and Korea
Wingspan
3 to 3.5 cm (1.2 to 1.4 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat the leaves of ash trees, lilac and privet.
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 Coronet 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)
Coronet about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Some coronets are almost all dark olive green, and some are black all over.
2
Depending on where it lives, it can be seen flying anywhere from April to September.
3
Its scientific name comes from privet, one of the bushes its caterpillars like to eat.
you asked
Most asked questions about Coronet
?Why is it called the coronet?
Because a pale patch on its wing looks like a small crown.
?What does a coronet caterpillar eat?
Leaves of ash trees, lilac and privet.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Craniophora ligustri
- Named by
- Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Craniophora ligustri (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 Denis Barthel. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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