Phragmatobia fuliginosa
Zimtbär ( Phragmatobia fuliginosa )
The Zimtbär or Rostflügelbär ( Phragmatobia fuliginosa ) is a butterfly (moth ) from the subfamily of the tiger moths ( Arctiinae ).
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Description
The moths reach a wingspan of 30 to 35 millimeters. The upper wing surface is cinnamon and has a small black dot in the middle. However, the Braunton often varies considerably from light brown to dark reddish brown. The hind wings have a bright dark red and show different degrees of black dots. The red with the points repeatedly to the body. The drawing is to discourage birds from eating this way. Young birds learn the warning at the latest to understand if they try one of these butterflies, because they will give him due to his inedible directly back from him. The caterpillars are unpalatable to birds.
The reddish egg is spherical and flattened below.
The caterpillars are about 35 mm long. They are colored in black and gray have dense tufts of reddish-brown or light gray, brown hair. At the back is a bright yellowish longitudinal stripe runs.
The blackish doll has yellowish segment incisions.
Similar Species
- Kaiserbär ( Phragmatobia luctifera ) ( Goeze, 1781)
Habitat
You can find the Zimtbären in meadows, pastures, around the edges. Forests, in heathland and on wastelands throughout Europe In mountains he appears up to a height of 3,000 meters. Since he has few enemies thanks to its warning color, it just cold and rainy summer can afflict, in this we find the moths only very rarely. But if the summers are warm and dry, it occurs frequently.
Flight times and caterpillars
In a year there will be two generations. The first generation of nocturnal moths can be found from mid-April to early June; the second, astonishingly, more active generation flight, from July to mid-August. The caterpillars are found from September to early April and from June to July. The caterpillar overwinters.
Food of the caterpillars
The caterpillars feed on various herbaceous plants and shrubs, such as of blackberry (Rubus fruticosus ), blackthorn (Prunus spinosa), skipjack or meadowsweet ( Filipendula ulmaria ), plantain ( Plantago lanceolata), ragwort ( Senecio jacobaea ) and dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) uva Ebert et al. (1997) lists 21 different caterpillar food plants.
Development
The females lay their eggs in very large opportunity of up to 500 pieces next to each other on the underside of leaves of fodder plants. The pupation the caterpillars takes place directly after hibernation, sometimes you find very early active animals even on snow crawling around. They pupate in a drab cocoon, usually between leaves and plant parts usually near the ground.