…adrina clavipalpis) Popular name: Pale mottled willow Pale mottled willow, Caredrina clavipalpis When a roof is newly thatched, whether with straw or reeds, thousands of grey- brown moth caterpillars may suddenly appear in the house. In the wild these larvae live on grasses and reeds, and they reach the house in the thatching material. It is nearly always the fully grown larvae which appear in this way, as they wander out of the roof in the autumn…
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Pale mottled willow
Latin: Caradrina clavipalpis The Pale Mottled Willow is part of the night butterfly family. They morph from larvae to the pale mottled willow. In the larvae stage are known to live under and in roofs, which is how it got its danish name “roof worm”. Appearance The “roof worm” is a larva of a butterfly. The larva will transform or morph into a butterfly. When it is a larva, it will be gray, brown, white and look like other butterfly larvae. Butter…