Ambiguous moth
The ambiguous moth is a small brown moth from the eastern United States. When it rests, it tucks its back wings under its front wings and looks like a little triangle. A dark straight band runs across its wings.
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Fun facts
The male has a little notch in the edge of his wing with a black spot, and the female does not.
Its wings can be brown, a bit purple or grey.
Its caterpillars have even been raised on dead leaves.
It flies from April to September, with several families of moths in one year in warm places.
Most asked questions about Ambiguous moth
?What does the ambiguous moth look like?
It is small and brown or grey, and it rests in a triangle shape with a dark band across its wings.
?What does the ambiguous moth caterpillar eat?
Chrysanthemums, asters, blackberry and even dead leaves.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lascoria ambigualis
- Named by
- Walker, 1866
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Erebidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Erebidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Lascoria ambigualis (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 Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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