#3102 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Milkweed Tussock Moth
Euchaetes egle
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what is it?
Euchaetes egle , the milkweed tussock caterpillar or milkweed tiger moth , is a moth in the family Erebidae. It is a common mid- through late-summer feeder on milkweeds and dogbane. , 1999). These are retained in adults and deter bats, and presumably other predators, from feeding on them (Hristov and Conner 2005). Only very...
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 49,523 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Dru Drury in 1773 (253 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Milkweed Tussock Moth
- scientific name
- Euchaetes egle
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Erebidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 49,523
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1773 by Dru Drury
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 81677, Wikidata Q1764213, GBIF 5116353, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.