Faint-spotted palthis moth
Palthis asopialis
The faint-spotted palthis moth is a small moth from eastern North America. Its wings are only about 2 centimetres across. In warm places it can be seen almost all year.
Lives in
North America, from Florida north to Ontario and west to Texas
Wingspan
1.9 to 2.3 cm (0.75 to 0.91 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting people, so you can watch it up close.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat beggarticks, bean leaves, corn and oak leaves.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 4 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 34 seconds
How big is Faint-spotted palthis moth compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Faint-spotted palthis moth about 11 km/h (6.8 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It can be on the wing from January to October, depending on where it lives.
2
In the northeast it has at least two families a year, and in the warm south even more.
3
Its caterpillars eat both tree leaves, like oak, and crop leaves, like beans and corn.
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Most asked questions about Faint-spotted palthis moth
?How big is the faint-spotted palthis moth?
Its wingspan is about 19 to 23 millimetres.
?What does the faint-spotted palthis caterpillar eat?
Beggarticks, bean leaves, corn and oak leaves.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Palthis asopialis
- Named by
- Guenée, 1854
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Erebidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Erebidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Palthis asopialis (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 NCBioTeacher. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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