Translation for 'eggar' from English to Swedish

grass eggar [moth]

klöverspinnare {u} [Lasiocampa trifolii]entom.T

• Hawthorns are also used as food plants by the larvae of a large number of Lepidoptera species, such as the small eggar moth, "E.
• He discovered the small eggar in Fermanagh in 1928.
• On the moorland, birds such as red grouse, peregrine falcon and hen harrier may be seen. Butterflies in summer include ringlet and small heath. A notable insect is the northern eggar moth.
• The diverse invertebrate fauna includes 31 species of butterflies and more than 400 species of moth, including the uncommon orange moth and pale oak eggar.
• The townland is also a habitat for "Hemaris tityus", the daylight-flying narrow-bordered bee hawk-moth (which looks quite similar to a bumble bee), "Trichiura crataegi", the pale eggar moth (only Northern Irish recording), and "Eulamprotes unicolorella", the twirling moth.

• "Trichiura crataegi", the pale eggar or pale oak eggar, is a moth of the family Lasiocampidae.
• The caterpillar hairs of some species of moth, such as the oak processionary moth ("Thaumetopoea processionea"), can cause skin irritation, but there is no evidence that the oak eggar is one of these, despite the similar name.
• Since the 1970s, the small eggar population has been declining in its native habitat in Britain, Wales, and Ireland.