Muslin moth
The muslin moth is a fluffy little moth where boys and girls look completely different. The girl is milky white with a few black dots, like thin white cloth. The boy is a sooty brownish grey.
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Fun facts
It is called muslin because the girl's thin white wings look like muslin, a light cotton cloth.
Its caterpillar is grey-brown with reddish warts and foxy red hairs.
Its eggs are pale yellow, and the pupa is shiny reddish brown.
Some boy muslin moths are white like the girls.
It flies in spring and early summer, from April to July.
Most asked questions about Muslin moth
?Why do male and female muslin moths look different?
The girls are white and the boys are brownish grey. Many moths have boys and girls that look different.
?What does the muslin moth caterpillar eat?
It eats leaves of birch, willow, dock, dead-nettle and plantain.
?How big is a muslin moth?
Its wings are about 28 to 38 millimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Diaphora mendica
- Named by
- Clerck, 1759
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Erebidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Erebidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Diaphora mendica (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 Stevenage, UK. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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