Primrose moth
The primrose moth is a pretty pink and pale yellow moth. Its colours match the flowers of the evening primrose, where it likes to sit. During the day it rests hidden inside these flowers.
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Fun facts
It has a pink head and pink front wings with pale yellow marks.
Its mother lays eggs right on the flower buds of evening primroses, and the eggs hatch after only 4 or 5 days.
When the caterpillar is big enough, it digs into the ground and spends the winter there.
It flies at night, just when the evening primrose flowers are open.
Most asked questions about Primrose moth
?Where does the primrose moth live?
In most of North America, wherever evening primroses grow.
?Why is it pink and yellow?
Its colours match the evening primrose flowers it hides in during the day.
?How big is a primrose moth?
Its wings measure about 3 centimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Schinia florida
- Named by
- Guenée, 1852
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Noctuidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Schinia florida (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 D. Gordon E. Robertson. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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