Red-banded leafroller moth
Argyrotaenia velutinana
The red-banded leafroller moth is a small moth from North America. Its caterpillars like to eat apple trees, both the leaves and the fruit. Fruit growers keep an eye out for it.
Lives in
The eastern United States and southeastern Canada, and also reported from British Columbia
Wingspan
1.3 to 2 cm (0.51 to 0.79 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillars eat leaves and fruit of apple and other fruit trees, and also spruce and some vegetables.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🍚wings as wide as 3 grains of rice in a row⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 38 seconds
How big is Red-banded leafroller moth compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Red-banded leafroller moth about 9.9 km/h (6.2 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its wings are only about 1.5 to 2 centimetres from tip to tip.
2
It lives from Quebec down to Florida and west to Texas.
3
Its caterpillars eat all sorts of plants, from apple trees to spruce trees and vegetables.
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Most asked questions about Red-banded leafroller moth
?What does the red-banded leafroller eat?
Its caterpillars eat leaves and fruit of apple trees, plus spruce and vegetables.
?Is the red-banded leafroller harmful?
It is harmless to people, but its caterpillars can damage apples.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Argyrotaenia velutinana
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Tortricidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Tortricidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Argyrotaenia velutinana (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 Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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