Hydriomena furcata
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The July Highflyer is a moth
of the Geometridae family. It is found in the Palearctic ecozone and is also found in North America
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The wingspan
is 23–30 mm. Adults are on wing from May to August. There is one generation per year.
The larvae feed on various deciduous trees, including Salix and Vaccinium myrtillus
.
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 Geometridae family. It is found in the Palearctic ecozone and is also found in North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
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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 23–30 mm. Adults are on wing from May to August. There is one generation per year.
The larvae feed on various deciduous trees, including Salix and Vaccinium myrtillus
Vaccinium myrtillus
Vaccinium myrtillus is an almost Holarctic species of shrub with edible fruit, usually simply referred to as "bilberry" or "whortleberry". It is more precidely called Common Bilberry or Blue Whortleberry, to distinguish it from its Vaccinium relatives...
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