Light emerald
The light emerald is a pretty moth with very pale green wings crossed by thin green and white lines. It flies at night and loves bright lights. As it gets older, its green colour fades and it turns almost white.
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Fun facts
The caterpillar spends the winter on its tree and eats the soft bark when there are no leaves.
Its eggs start light grey with dark dots, then turn pink with deep red dots.
Females are usually much bigger than males.
Its caterpillar is grey or brown with little white dots.
Most asked questions about Light emerald
?What does the light emerald look like?
It has pale green wings with thin green and white lines. Older ones look almost white.
?What does the light emerald eat?
Its caterpillars eat leaves of trees like apple, birch and oak.
?How big is a light emerald moth?
Its wings are about 4 to 5 centimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Campaea margaritaria
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1767
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Geometridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Geometridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Africa
Where the facts come from
- Campaea margaritata (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 No machine-readable author provided. Soebe assumed (based on copyright claims).. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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