Garden tiger moth
The garden tiger moth has brown front wings with a white pattern and bright orange back wings with dark blue spots. When it rests, it hides the orange under the brown. If a bird comes close, it flashes its bright colours to say: do not eat me.
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Fun facts
It can make sounds to tell hunting bats that it tastes bad.
Its caterpillar is so fuzzy that people call it a woolly bear.
The caterpillar sleeps through the winter and finishes growing in spring.
There are hundreds of different colour patterns, and one scientist counted about 500 of them.
Most asked questions about Garden tiger moth
?What is a woolly bear?
It is the fuzzy caterpillar of the garden tiger moth.
?How big is a garden tiger moth?
Its wings are about 4.5 to 6.5 centimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Arctia caja
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Erebidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Erebidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
- Also known as
- Great tiger moth
Where the facts come from
- Garden tiger 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 Ben Sale from UK. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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