Straw-barred pearl
The straw-barred pearl is a small brown or greyish moth with pale, wavy markings on its wings. It is a moth that likes the sun. You can see it flying in sunshine and again when evening comes.
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Fun facts
It flies from May to September, and there can be two families of moths in one summer.
It likes chalky and limestone ground best.
The male's back wings are grey, but the female's are almost black.
Its caterpillar is dark brownish black with little black spots ringed in grey.
Most asked questions about Straw-barred pearl
?Where does the straw-barred pearl live?
In most of Europe, especially in grassy places on chalk and limestone.
?What does the straw-barred pearl caterpillar eat?
It eats plantain leaves, a common low plant found in lawns and meadows.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pyrausta despicata
- Named by
- Scopoli, 1763
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Crambidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Crambidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Pyrausta despicata (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 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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