Bird-cherry Ermine

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Bird-cherry Ermine
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Family: Yponomeutidae Subfamily: Yponomeutinae Genus: Yponomeuta Species: Y. evonymella
Binomial name
Yponomeuta evonymella Linnaeus, 1758

The Bird-cherry Ermine (Yponomeuta evonymella) is a day active lepidoptera from the family Yponomeutidae, the Ermine moths. The wingspan of the moth ranges from 16 to 25 millimeter.

The host plant of the Bird-cherry Ermine is the Bird Cherry. Because the caterpillars make an extensive weblike nest, they can eat a whole tree bare unhindered.

The flight time ranges from July up to August. The moth can be found in the whole of Europe and the northern and eastern part of Asia.