Buttoned snout
The buttoned snout is a grey brown moth with a long pointy snout in front of its head. On each front wing it has a tiny tuft of raised scales, like a little button. It lives in gardens, parks and at the edges of woods.
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Fun facts
The little button on its wing is a tuft of scales that sticks up.
Its caterpillar is green with pale lines.
It has two families a year. Some fly in late summer and autumn, and others in spring.
It can live in the mountains up to 1600 m high.
Most asked questions about Buttoned snout
?What does the buttoned snout eat?
Its caterpillars eat hop leaves.
?Why is it called the buttoned snout?
Because it has a long snout and a little button of raised scales on each front wing.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hypena rostralis
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Erebidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Erebidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Hypena rostralis (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 Adrian Tync. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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