Alsophila aescularia
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The March Moth is a moth
of the family Geometridae. It is found throughout Europe
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The female of this species is wingless. It is usually found resting on tree-trunks. The male has a distinctive way of resting with overlapping wings. The males are attracted to light.
The wingspan
is 25-35 mm. The adults are active in March and April .
The larva is pale-green and feeds on a range of trees. Long, spider's-web like strings hang from oak trees in the southern hemisphere. The worm like larvae hangs from one end.
Moth
A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...
of the family Geometridae. It is found throughout Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
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The female of this species is wingless. It is usually found resting on tree-trunks. The male has a distinctive way of resting with overlapping wings. The males are attracted to light.
The wingspan
Wingspan
The wingspan of an airplane or a bird, is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777 has a wingspan of about ; and a Wandering Albatross caught in 1965 had a wingspan of , the official record for a living bird.The term wingspan, more technically extent, is...
is 25-35 mm. The adults are active in March and April .
The larva is pale-green and feeds on a range of trees. Long, spider's-web like strings hang from oak trees in the southern hemisphere. The worm like larvae hangs from one end.
External links
- Vlindernet
- Recente waarnemingen on waarneming.nl ]
- Lepidoptera of Belgium
- March Moth at UK Moths