The bordered straw
The bordered straw is a pale straw-coloured moth that loves heat. Its back wings have a broad dark border, like a picture frame. It travels north from warm countries every year.
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Fun facts
It is a migrant that flies north each year, arriving from May to October.
It lives on hot wastelands and warm slopes.
There is a grey spot on the middle of each front wing that looks like a small shield.
Its caterpillar is reddish grey or ochre, dotted with white.
Most asked questions about The bordered straw
?Where does the bordered straw come from?
From southern Europe, Africa and Asia. It flies north as a visitor every year.
?What does the bordered straw caterpillar eat?
Many plants, including marigolds, pot marigolds and medick.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Heliothis peltigera
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
- Also known as
- Bordered straw
Where the facts come from
- Heliothis peltigera (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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