Green leuconycta moth
Leuconycta diphteroides
The green leuconycta moth is a small moth with green colours on its wings, which help it hide among leaves. It lives in eastern and central North America. Its caterpillars like goldenrods and asters.
Lives in
North America, from Nova Scotia to Florida and west to Texas and Saskatchewan
Wingspan
2.7 to 3.2 cm (1.1 to 1.3 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Moths cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat goldenrod and aster plants.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 5 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 29 seconds
How big is Green leuconycta moth 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)
Green leuconycta moth about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
The grown-up moths fly from May to September.
2
Its caterpillars eat goldenrods and asters, two kinds of wildflowers that bloom in late summer.
3
It is also called the green owlet.
you asked
Most asked questions about Green leuconycta moth
?What does the green leuconycta moth eat?
Its caterpillars eat goldenrod and aster plants.
?How big is the green leuconycta moth?
Its wingspan is about 3 centimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Leuconycta diphteroides
- Named by
- Guenée, 1852
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Green owlet
Where the facts come from
- Leuconycta diphteroides (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 xpda. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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