(a species of owlet moth (Noctuid)) Some caterpillars, after they emerge from their egg, can increase their weight by 25,000 times.

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Distribution and habitat

Distribution 

Tetraplodon mnioides distribution is circumpolar, and stretches as far north as the northern-most forests of the Arctic (Boreoarctic Montane).

It can be found

  • from Svalbard – an Arctic archipelago - south to Spain, Italy and central Europe
  • through Asia to the Russian Far East (Sakhalin), Japan, Borneo and New Guinea
  • also in N. America, Greenland, Colombia, Ecuador, southern S. America, Tanzania  

Habitat

This moss lives on bones and dung.

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