White-pinion spotted
The white-pinion spotted is a small, pale moth with silvery white wings. On the front edge of each front wing it has two dark grey spots. It lives at the sunny edges of woods, in clearings, and also in gardens and parks.
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Fun facts
Its wings are 22 to 26 millimetres from tip to tip.
It mostly flies at night and is attracted to lights.
The caterpillar is green with a purple brown or red line along its back, broken into diamond-shaped spots near the end.
There is usually one family of young each year, and in Britain the moths appear in early summer.
It does not live in Iceland, and in Ireland it is only found in a few places.
Most asked questions about White-pinion spotted
?What does the white-pinion spotted eat?
Its caterpillars eat leaves of bird cherry, blackthorn and hawthorn.
?Where does the white-pinion spotted live?
In much of Europe and Asia, at the edges of woods, in clearings, gardens and parks.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lomographa bimaculata
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1775
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Lomographa bimaculata (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
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