Eastern panthea moth
Panthea furcilla
The eastern panthea is a moth from the conifer forests of North America. Its caterpillar is known as the tufted white pine caterpillar. It munches on the needles of pines, spruces and larches.
Lives in
Canada and the eastern United States, in conifer forests
Wingspan
3.3 to 5 cm (1.3 to 2 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat the needles of larch, pine and spruce trees.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🧱wings as wide as 1.5 toy building bricks⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 24 seconds
How big is Eastern panthea moth compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Eastern panthea moth about 16 km/h (9.9 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
In Canada it has one brood a year and flies from June to August.
2
In the warmer southern United States it can have two or more generations a year.
3
It lives from the far northern forests of Canada all the way down to Florida and Texas.
you asked
Most asked questions about Eastern panthea moth
?What does the eastern panthea eat?
Its caterpillars eat the needles of larch, pine and spruce.
?How big is the eastern panthea?
Its wings measure about 33 to 50 millimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Panthea furcilla
- Named by
- Packard, 1864
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Eastern panthea, Tufted white pine caterpillar
Where the facts come from
- Panthea furcilla (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 NCBioTeacher. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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