Angle shades
The angle shades is a moth with pointy front wings in soft brown, pink and green. A big V shape on each wing makes it look like a crumpled dry leaf. That is a great disguise when it rests in the daytime.
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Fun facts
Its bright colours and sharp angles break up its shape, so it is hard to spot on leaves.
It travels long distances, flying to new places each year.
It flies mostly at night and is attracted to lights.
Its caterpillar spends the winter as a caterpillar and turns into a pupa in spring.
The caterpillar is green or brown with pale dots and faint dark V shapes along its back.
Most asked questions about Angle shades
?What does the angle shades eat?
The moths drink flower nectar, and the caterpillars eat many different plants.
?Where can you see the angle shades?
In gardens, hedges and woods across Europe, often near lights at night.
?How big is the angle shades?
Its wings are about 4.5 to 5.2 centimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Phlogophora meticulosa
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Angle shades (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 Kohl Wld. CC BY-SA 2.0 de, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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