Yellow-barred longhorn
The yellow-barred longhorn is a tiny shiny golden moth with a yellow band across its wings. The male has enormous white feelers, up to five times as long as his body. It flies in the daytime along damp woodland paths.
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Fun facts
The male's feelers can be five times longer than his body.
The female's feelers are much shorter, thick and black at the bottom with a white tip.
Its caterpillar spends the winter inside a little shelter made of leaves.
Its wings shine bronze gold with blue violet stripes.
Most asked questions about Yellow-barred longhorn
?Why is it called a longhorn moth?
Because the male has extremely long feelers, up to five times his body length.
?When can I see the yellow-barred longhorn?
In the daytime from May to July, in damp woods.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Nemophora degeerella
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Adelidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Adelidae
- Lives on
- Europe
- Also known as
- Longhorn moth
Where the facts come from
- Longhorn moth (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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