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title: "Garden Tiger"
description: "Arctia caja — Insetos e aranhas. Arctia caja, the garden tiger moth or great tiger moth is a moth of the family Erebidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/garden-tiger
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Garden Tiger

> Arctia caja — Insetos e aranhas. Arctia caja, the garden tiger moth or great tiger moth is a moth of the family Erebidae.

- Scientific name: *Arctia caja*
- Category: `insects` (Insetos e aranhas)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 20923
- Wikidata: [Q674760](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q674760)
- iNaturalist taxon: [68330](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/68330)

## Names

- en: Garden Tiger
- de: Brauner Bär
- es: Gitana
- fr: Écaille martre
- nl: Grote beer
- pl: Niedźwiedziówka kaja

## Countries with the most observations

GB (2462), RU (1992), CA (1589), US (1555), DE (1490), FR (1429), DK (855), PL (694), CZ (602), AT (510), IT (476), NL (407)

## Summary

Arctia caja, the garden tiger moth or great tiger moth is a moth of the family Erebidae. Arctia caja is a northern species found in the US, Canada, and Europe. The moth prefers cold climates with temperate seasonality, as the larvae overwinter, and preferentially chooses host plants that produce pyrrolizidine alkaloids. However, garden tiger moths are generalists, and will pick many different plants to use as larval host plants.
The conspicuous patterns on its wings serve as a warning to predators because the moth's body fluids are poisonous. Their effects are not yet fully known, but these toxins contain quantities…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_tiger_moth

## Photo

![Garden Tiger](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/garden-tiger/medium.jpg)

Photo: Nancy Mullin · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/232033585

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/garden-tiger?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).