Elderberry pearl
The elderberry pearl is a small moth with dark wings sprinkled with creamy yellow dots and patches. Its caterpillar is whitish green. As its name says, it is often found on elder bushes.
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Fun facts
It flies from May to August, depending on where it lives.
People once thought it also lived in North America, but those moths turned out to be three other, very similar kinds.
Its back wings have the same pattern as the front wings, with even bigger pale patches.
Most asked questions about Elderberry pearl
?What does the elderberry pearl eat?
Its caterpillars eat leaves of elder, lilac, sunflower and several other plants.
?How big is the elderberry pearl?
Its open wings are 23 to 26 millimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anania coronata
- Named by
- Hufnagel, 1767
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Crambidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Crambidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
- Also known as
- Elder pearl, Crowned phlyctaenia
Where the facts come from
- Anania coronata (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 Ben Sale from Stevenage, UK. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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