Hebrew character
The Hebrew character is a brownish moth with a special black mark on each front wing. The mark looks like a letter from the Hebrew alphabet. It is one of the first moths to fly in spring.
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Fun facts
It flies at night in March and April, when it is still quite chilly.
Like many moths, it is drawn to lights.
The caterpillar is green with yellow dots and pale stripes.
It spends the winter as a pupa and comes out in early spring.
Its colour can be sandy, reddish, purplish brown or even pale cream.
Most asked questions about Hebrew character
?Why is it called the Hebrew character?
Because the black mark on its wings looks like a letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
?When can you see the Hebrew character moth?
At night in early spring, mostly in March and April.
?How big is the Hebrew character?
Its wings are about 3 to 4 centimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Orthosia gothica
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Hebrew character (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 Myself. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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