Zygaena filipendulae caterpillar · vingiorykštinis marguolis, vikšras

• six-spot burnet
• Sechsfleck-Widderchen, Blutströpfchen, Erdeichel-Widderchen, Gewöhnliches Widderchen
• vingiorykštinis marguolis
• ceļteku raibspārnis
• kraśnik sześcioplamek

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-spot_burnet
• pyrgus.de/Zygaena_filipendulae_en.html

It is an aposematic moth because it is distinguished by its colors as toxic to predators like birds and lizards. If attacked it emits a liquid containing cyanide. The adults fly on hot, sunny days from June to August, and are attracted to a wide variety of flowers such as knapweed and scabious, as well as the larval food plants Lotus corniculatus, Dorycnium, Coronilla, Trifolium. The species overwinters as a larva. The larva pupates in early summer in a papery cocoon attached to a grass stem. 1941