Pine-tree lappet
The pine-tree lappet is a big, furry brown moth that lives in pine forests. Its caterpillar is very hairy and very hungry for pine needles. When lots of them hatch at once, they can strip whole pine trees bare.
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Fun facts
Its eggs are blue green at first and slowly turn grey. Each egg is only about 2 millimetres big.
In autumn the caterpillars climb down and spend the winter on the forest floor. When the snow melts, they climb back up to eat.
The grown-up moth lives only about 9 or 10 days, because it does not eat.
Males can fly several kilometres to find a female.
A full grown caterpillar can be about 5 to 7 centimetres long.
Most asked questions about Pine-tree lappet
?What does the pine-tree lappet eat?
Only the caterpillars eat. They munch pine needles. The grown-up moth does not eat at all.
?How big is a pine-tree lappet?
Its wings measure about 5 to 9 centimetres from tip to tip. The females are bigger.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Dendrolimus pini
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Lasiocampidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Lasiocampidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Africa
- Also known as
- Pine tree lappet moth, Pine moth
Where the facts come from
- Dendrolimus pini (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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