moly of the stems, the moth of the goat

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Cossus is a genus of moths from the Cossidae family described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1793.Acossus terebra is a species of moth from the Cossidae family. It is found in Eurasia, including Israel, Turkey, northern Spain, central and southern Europe, southern Sweden, Finland, the Baltic region, Ukraine, the central part of European Russia, the Caucasus, southern Siberia (including the Altai and Sayan Mountains) to southern Yakutia, the southern part of the Russian Far East, Korea, Heilongjiang, Jilin and Inner Mongolia. The wingspan is 5.5-6.5 cm and adults are observed in flight from June to August. Like a good part of the moths, the drawing and the color of the adult’s wings imitate very well the bark of the trees (mimetism), but from Nature to defend itself. The larvae of this moth have as a preference for food poplar trees (Populus tremula).