Blackberry looper moth
Chlorochlamys chloroleucaria
The blackberry looper moth is a tiny moth from North America. Its caterpillar is a looper, which walks by humping its body up into a loop. Unlike most caterpillars, it likes to eat fruit and flower petals.
Lives in
North America, from Nova Scotia to Florida, west to the Rocky Mountains and south into Mexico
Wingspan
1.4 to 2.3 cm (0.55 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 blackberries and the petals of daisy-like flowers such as asters, goldenrod, sunflowers and black-eyed Susans.
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 Blackberry looper moth compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Blackberry looper 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
In the south the moths fly from April to November.
2
It has at least two families every year.
3
It is also listed for Great Britain, but only because of one single moth kept in a museum since the early 1800s.
you asked
Most asked questions about Blackberry looper moth
?What does the blackberry looper eat?
Its caterpillars eat blackberry fruit and the petals of many daisy-like flowers.
?How big is the blackberry looper moth?
Its wingspan is about 14 to 23 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Chlorochlamys chloroleucaria
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Blackberry looper
Where the facts come from
- Chlorochlamys chloroleucaria (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 Beatriz Moisset. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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