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Streak (moth)

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is 35–38 millimetres (1.4–1.5 in). See Prout for a full description. The larva is usually dark green with darker, paler-edged dorsal line, a broad whitish or yellowish subdorsal. It has a conspicuous white lateral stripe and 3 white lines ventrally. The spiracles are red, ringed with black. It
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is adaptive to its environment, a yellow form being frequent on plants on which there is much bloom, while a much blackened form has been recorded from dry, stunted plants. The pupa is red-brown, dorsally rather darker, wings tinged with green.
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The species is quite variable, the forewings being buff or brown, but is always easily identified by the bold whitish apical streak which gives it its common name. The hindwings are pale grey or buff. The
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The moth flies, usually at dusk, in September and October and is sometimes attracted to light.
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Collins Guide to the Insects of Britain and Western Europe
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Prout, L. B. (1912–16). Geometridae. In A. Seitz (ed.)
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Streak


Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Geometridae
Chesias
Binomial name
Denis
Schiffermüller
moth
Geometridae
Britain
first described
Michael Denis
Ignaz Schiffermüller

wingspan
larva
broom
yellow bush lupin
egg
British Isles
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