Small ranunculus
The small ranunculus is a pale grey moth speckled with darker grey. Its wing markings are trimmed with little orange scales, as if painted with a fine brush. Its caterpillar is pale green or yellowish with brown freckles.
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Fun facts
It likes roadsides, waste ground, gardens and parks.
In the Alps it lives up to about 1,400 metres high.
It came to North America by accident and was first found in Utah in 1998.
The moths fly from May to the middle of August.
Most asked questions about Small ranunculus
?What does the small ranunculus caterpillar eat?
It eats the flowers and seeds of wild lettuce and its relatives.
?Where does the small ranunculus live?
In Europe, North Africa and Asia, and now also in parts of North America.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hecatera dysodea
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Hecatera dysodea (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 UK. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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