Red-fringed Emerald
Nemoria bistriaria
The adult is a small emerald-green moth found around woods, thickets, and forest edges where its larval food plants grow. It flies mainly at night, resting by day on foliage and sometimes coming to artificial lights. Adults use quick, fluttering flight and leaf-like coloration to avoid predators rather than direct force. Its reddish wing fringes are a notable marking that helps distinguish it from many other green geometrid moths.
- Type
- Wing
- Conservation status
- NE
Growth chain
- Red-fringed Emerald Larva
- ?
- Red-fringed Emerald