Tobacco budworm moth
The tobacco budworm is a brownish moth with a light green tinge and three dark bands on its front wings. Its caterpillars are very hungry and eat many kinds of crops. Farmers find it very hard to get rid of.
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Fun facts
A mother moth can lay 300 to 500 tiny round eggs on flowers and fruit.
Its caterpillars can be green, pink or even dark red.
The caterpillar grows from about 1.4 millimetres to 3.6 centimetres long.
When it is ready to change into a moth, it digs into the soil to become a pupa.
Many bug sprays no longer work on it, which makes it a tough pest.
Most asked questions about Tobacco budworm moth
?What does the tobacco budworm eat?
Its caterpillars eat tobacco, cotton and many other crops and plants.
?Why is it called a budworm?
Because its caterpillars feed on the buds, flowers and fruit of plants like tobacco.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Chloridea virescens
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Tobacco budworm
Where the facts come from
- Chloridea virescens (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 Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State University. CC BY 3.0 us, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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