Morning-glory plume moth
The morning-glory plume moth is a thin, pale moth with feathery wings. When it rests, it rolls its wings up so tightly that it looks like a little stick with legs. It can be off-white or a rusty brown colour.
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Fun facts
It flies nearly all year round, so you might even spot it on a mild winter day.
Its caterpillar is greenish yellow with a wide green stripe down its back.
The pupa can be green or reddish brown, sometimes with black marks.
Most asked questions about Morning-glory plume moth
?Why is it called the morning-glory plume?
Its caterpillars eat morning glory and bindweed, and its wings look like feathers, or plumes.
?Is the plume moth harmful?
No. It is harmless to people. Its caterpillars eat weeds like bindweed.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Emmelina monodactyla
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Pterophoridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pterophoridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Africa, North America
- Also known as
- Common plume
Where the facts come from
- Emmelina monodactyla (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 Didier Descouens. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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