Small angle shades
Euplexia lucipara
The small angle shades is a dark brown moth with a broad pale band near the edge of its front wings. It flies at night in early summer. It likes lights and sweet things.
Lives in
Europe and Asia all the way to Japan, and Algeria
Wingspan
3 to 3.5 cm (1.2 to 1.4 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars often eat ferns, and also many other plants like birch, oak, raspberry and nettle.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 6 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 29 seconds
How big is Small angle shades compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Small angle shades 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 caterpillar is velvety green with darker green slanting stripes.
2
It spends the winter as a pupa, waiting for spring.
3
It is a smaller cousin of a moth called the angle shades.
4
It is attracted to lamps and to sweet sugary drinks.
you asked
Most asked questions about Small angle shades
?What does the small angle shades eat?
Its caterpillars mostly eat ferns, but also lots of other plants.
?How big is the small angle shades?
Its open wings measure about 3 to 3.5 cm across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Euplexia lucipara
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Africa
Where the facts come from
- Small angle shades (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
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