Garden Tiger Moth

Its forewings are chocolatey brown with cream patterns whereas its hindwings are orangey red with black spots.

Garden tiger moth. The garden tiger is an attractive brown and white moth of sand dunes woodland edges meadows and hedgerows. It flies in july and august and will regularly. In decline it is suffering from the tidying up of our countryside. The garden tiger is an attractive brown and white moth of sand dunes woodland edges meadows and hedgerows.

However garden tiger moths are generalists and will pick many different. There are five similar tiger moths in britain all of which are smaller. Garden tiger garden tiger. If disturbed the moth displays its orange hindwings with blue black spots and can produce a clear yellow fluid from two ducts just behind the head.

The garden tiger is a widespread species and can be found throughout the uk however numbers have decreased in recent years. The garden tiger moth is a dramatically colourful species found throughout much of the british isles northern europe north america and northern asia. The moth prefers cold climates with temperate seasonality as the larvae overwinter and preferentially chooses host plants that produce pyrrolizidine alkaloids. They are commonly.

The garden tiger is an attractive brown and white moth of sand dunes woodland edges meadows and hedgerows. Garden tiger arctia caja linnaeus 1758 wingspan 45 65 mm. Tags black brown copper orange red blue black spots red spots spots large medium england scotland wales. Arctia caja is a northern species found in the us canada and europe.

The garden tiger moth has a chocolate brown furry body brown and white patterned forewings and bright red hindwings with four or five large black spots. In the british isles it occurs commonly in gardens and open countryside although in recent years numbers have declined alarmingly. It is easily recognised though its pattern of dark brown and cream on its forewings are variable. Once a quite common moth in most of britain it seems to have declined in many places in the last few years.

In decline it is suffering from the tidying up of our countryside. The garden tiger moth is found throughout mainland britain often in gardens and was once regarded as common but recent figures suggest that its population in the uk has crashed by 92 since 1968. It will also visit gardens. Another species which was a favourite with early collectors who selectively bred it to create unusual colours and forms.

The garden tiger moth or great tiger moth arctia caja is a moth of the family erebidae. The striking caterpillars are large black and covered in long dense black and ginger hairs. It will also visit gardens moth identification have a look at our moth id sheet to work out what kind of moth you have spotted.