Bronze alder moth
The bronze alder moth is a tiny moth with white wings and shiny copper-gold markings. In the middle of its wings you can see a gold mark shaped like the letter Y. It is very common in Europe and also lives in North America.
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Fun facts
Its wings are only 10 to 13 millimetres from tip to tip, about as wide as your fingernail.
It flies at night, but you can also see it on sunny afternoons.
The caterpillars spend the winter hidden inside a shoot or a hard catkin of their tree.
In spring the caterpillars gather together and turn into pupae in cocoons under the bark.
There is only one family of young each year, and the moths fly from May to October.
Most asked questions about Bronze alder moth
?What does the bronze alder moth eat?
The moth drinks nectar from tansy flowers. The caterpillars eat birch and alder.
?How big is the bronze alder moth?
Tiny. Its wings are 10 to 13 millimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Argyresthia goedartella
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Argyresthiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Argyresthiidae
- Lives on
- Europe, North America
Where the facts come from
- Argyresthia goedartella (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 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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