Peach blossom
The peach blossom is a moth with brown wings decorated with five pink and white blotches. The blotches look like the petals of peach flowers, which gave it its name. It flies at night and loves sweet things and bright lights.
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Fun facts
Its pink spots look like flower petals painted on its wings.
Its caterpillar is brown with white marks and humps on its back, and when it rests it lifts up both ends of its body.
It spends the winter as a pupa, all wrapped up waiting for summer.
At night it flies towards lights and is drawn to sweet, sugary things.
Most asked questions about Peach blossom
?Why is it called the peach blossom?
Because the pink and white blotches on its wings look like peach flower petals.
?What does the peach blossom caterpillar eat?
Leaves of brambles and other plants in the same family, like raspberry.
?How big is the peach blossom moth?
Its wings measure about 4 to 4.5 centimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Thyatira batis
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Drepanidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Drepanidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Africa
Where the facts come from
- Peach blossom (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 Hamon jp. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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