Shy cosmet moth
The shy cosmet moth is a small, slim moth with ochre yellow front wings. Each front wing has two grey brown spots with white edges, joined by a thin line. It lives in fens and marshes.
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Fun facts
It lives in a huge area, from Europe and Asia to Australia, New Zealand and North America.
Its feelers are yellowish white with brown rings and almost white tips.
Its back wings are plain grey, while its front wings are full of patterns.
In western Europe the grown-ups fly in July, and in North America from June to August.
Most asked questions about Shy cosmet moth
?Where does the shy cosmet moth live?
In wet places like fens and marshes in Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and North America.
?How big is the shy cosmet moth?
It is a small moth, about 15 to 22 millimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Limnaecia phragmitella
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Cosmopterigidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Cosmopterigidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Australia and Oceania, North America
Where the facts come from
- Limnaecia phragmitella (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 Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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