Brassy longhorn
Nemophora metallica
The brassy longhorn is a small, shiny moth from Europe. Like its relatives, it has very long, thin feelers. You can see it in summer meadows, where its caterpillars live on purple scabious flowers.
Lives in
Europe, in flowery meadows
Wingspan
1.5 to 2 cm (0.59 to 0.79 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It is a tiny moth that cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
The caterpillars feed on two meadow flowers, field scabious and small scabious.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 3 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 38 seconds
How big is Brassy longhorn compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Brassy longhorn about 9.9 km/h (6.2 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
Its wings measure 15 to 20 millimetres from tip to tip, smaller than a coin.
2
It flies from late June to August, depending on where it lives.
3
Its caterpillars eat only scabious flowers, pretty purple meadow plants that bees love too.
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Most asked questions about Brassy longhorn
?Where does the brassy longhorn live?
In Europe, in meadows where scabious flowers grow.
?When does the brassy longhorn fly?
From late June to August.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Nemophora metallica
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Adelidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Adelidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Nemophora metallica (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 Michael Kurz. CC BY-SA 3.0 at, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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