Rosy rustic
The rosy rustic is a night moth in soft brown and grey colours, often with a pink blush. It flies late in the year, from summer into autumn. Its caterpillar lives on many kinds of plants.
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Fun facts
Its colour changes a lot: some are pale and yellowish, some dark olive grey, and many have a rosy tint.
It has one family each year, flying from early July to November.
Its caterpillar is a reddish flesh colour with a shiny red brown head.
It looks so much like two other moths that only an expert with a microscope can tell them apart.
Most asked questions about Rosy rustic
?What does the rosy rustic eat?
Its caterpillars eat many soft plants, even potatoes.
?How big is the rosy rustic?
Its open wings measure 28 to 45 millimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hydraecia micacea
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Hydraecia micacea (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 User:Fvlamoen. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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