Cabera

Cabera is a genus of moths in the Geometridae family. These are medium-sized geometrids with relatively broad, rounded wings. They usually have pale whitish, grey, or buff ground color, often marked with fine wavy or straight brownish cross-lines. The body is slender and usually pale to match the wings, and they rest with wings spread flat, showing the crosslines clearly. Caterpillars by feeding on willows, alders, birches, and other deciduous trees, Cabera caterpillars accelerate leaf turnover play an important role in woodland ecosystems. The caterpillars are a key food source for many other organisms such as woodland songbirds time egg-laying to coincide with caterpillar abundance, also wasps, ants, beetles. The adult moths are also food source for bats.