Notodonta dromedarius
Dromedary - tooth Spinner ( Notodonta dromedarius)
The dromedary - tooth spinner or alder tooth Spinner ( Notodonta dromedarius) is a butterfly (moth ) from the family of the tooth Spinner ( Notodontidae ).
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Features
The moths reach a wingspan of 35 to 45 millimeters. They have gray forewings with rust-brown and yellowish spots and dark spikes binding. Along the forewing outer margin runs a broken rust-brown tie. The hind wings are colored light gray.
The caterpillars are about 38 mm long and are yellow on the top, down into the green colored running. They are rarely olive - gray and brown. You have on the fourth are colored with a red-brown border to the seventh and pointed at the eleventh segment back hump, the white with the exception of the eleventh on the tips. On the back of three red stripes are observed, which sometimes coalesce into a broad median strip. They also have red side stripes on the sides above the legs. The spiracles are black gray or yellowish with a dark drawing.
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Occurrence
The animals are found in Europe and Asia Minor and live both in dry and in moist areas with stocks their food plants, such as forest edges, in lowland forests, bogs and heaths, but also in parks. They often occur.
Way of life
The nocturnal moths, especially the males, can be at night easily attracted by artificial light.
Flight times and caterpillars
The type flies in two generations per year from mid-May to June and from late July to late August. The caterpillars from the eggs of the first generation can be found from August to September, the second in June and July of the following year. In the mountains, flying only one generation from June to July.
Food of the caterpillars
The caterpillars often feed on the leaves of silver birch (Betula pendula) and black alder ( Alnus glutinosa) also of Quaking Aspen (Populus tremula ), goat willow (Salix caprea ) and Common Hazel (Corylus avellana ).
Development
The caterpillars pupate in a cocoon on or in the ground. The doll is colored black brown. The wintering pupae of the second generation.