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The garden tiger moth or great tiger moth [2] (Arctia caja) is a moth of the family Erebidae. Arctia caja is a northern species found in the US, Canada, and Europe. [3] [4] The moth prefers cold climates with temperate seasonality, as the larvae overwinter, [3] and preferentially chooses host plants that produce pyrrolizidine alkaloids.
Euchaetes egle, the milkweed tiger moth or milkweed tussock moth, is a moth in the family Erebidae and the tribe Arctiini, the tiger moths. The species was first described by Dru Drury in 1773. It is a common mid- through late summer feeder on milkweeds and dogbane .
Hypercompe permaculata, the many-spotted tiger moth, is a tiger moth of the family Erebidae. It was first described by Alpheus Spring Packard in 1872. [ 1 ] It is native to the western United States and parts of northern Mexico.
This subfamily includes the groups commonly known as tiger moths (or tigers), which usually have bright colours, footmen, which are usually much drabber, lichen moths, and wasp moths. Many species have "hairy" caterpillars that are popularly known as woolly bears or woolly worms .
Nais tiger moth Apantesis: Erebidae: 1773 Arta statalis [18] [19] Posturing arta moth Arta: Pyralidae: 1875 Athetis tarda [6] Slowpoke moth Athetis: Noctuidae 1852 — Autographa precationis [6] Common looper moth Autographa: Noctuidae 1852 Baileya ophthalmica [6] Eyed baileya Baileya: Nolidae: 1852 — Besma endropiaria [12] Straw besma Besma ...
The subtribe was previously classified as the tribe Phaegopterini of the family Arctiidae. In 2002, Jacobson & Weller proposed a clade Euchaetes within Arctiini. [2] In 2010, V. V. Dubatolov proposed that this clade should be classified as subtribe Euchaetina, containing eight arctiini genera, including Euchaetes. [3]
The Isabella tiger moth can be found in many cold and temperate regions. The banded woolly bear larva emerges from the egg in the fall and overwinters in its caterpillar form, by allowing most of its mass to freeze solid. First its heart stops beating, then its gut freezes, then its blood, followed by the rest of the body.
Spilosoma virginica is a species of moth in the subfamily Arctiinae occurring in the United States and southern Canada. [3] As a caterpillar, it is known as the yellow woolly bear or yellow bear caterpillar. As an adult, it is known as the Virginian tiger moth.