With few exceptions, adult butterflies and moths eat only various liquids to maintain their water balance and energy stores. Most adults sip flower nectar, but other imbibe fluids from sap flowers on trees, rotting fruits, bird droppings, or animal dung.
What do blue moths eat?
An adult blue morpho - like all butterflies - drinks its food rather than eats it. It uses its proboscis (long, protruding mouth part) to drink sap and fruit juices. But like all butterflies, adult morphos were plant-chomping caterpillars as youngsters.
What do angel shade moths eat?
The caterpillars of the angle shades moth are polyphagous so they will eat the leaves of a wide range of different plants including nettles, red valerian, dock, bramble, hazel and oak.Nov 7, 2012
Where do angle shades live?
The angle shades (Phlogophora meticulosa) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is distributed throughout Europe as far east as the Urals and also in the Azores, in Algeria, and in Asia Minor, Armenia, and Syria.
What do you feed angle shade moths?
The adults are attracted to light and feed on flowers of Common Reed and other grasses. They are frequently seen during the day, resting in the open, on walls, fences or vegetation. They overwinter as larvae so the caterpillars can be seen all year round, feeding in mild weather.
What is an angel shade caterpillar?
What is angle shades moth? The angle shades is one of many species of moth that can be found in gardens. The caterpillars of this species eat the foliage and flower buds of a wide range of plants. The adult is has a colourful wing pattern and shape that resembles a withered autumn leaf.