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Caterpillar on chickory flower. Chloridea virescens, commonly known as the tobacco budworm, is a moth of the family Noctuidae found throughout the eastern and southwestern United States along with parts of Central America and South America. [1] It is a major pest of field crops including tobacco (as its common name suggests) and cotton.
Western spruce budworm caterpillar, sixth (final) instar. Adult moths are about 1 / 2 inch (12.7 mm) long and have a wing-spread of 7 / 8 to 1 1 / 8 inches (22 to 28mm). Moths of both sexes are similar in appearance, although the females are a bit more robust than males. Both sexes fly.
6. Gypsy Moth. This invasive moth from Europe has a voracious appetite for the leaves of over 300 tree and shrub species. During outbreaks, gypsy moth caterpillars can defoliate entire forests and ...
The caterpillars, frequently spotted in August in the Palmetto State, eventually grow into moths. They can’t survive in cooler climates, so fall armyworms spend winters in Florida, Texas and ...
The young caterpillar is densely covered with yellow setae. The older caterpillar's setae are either pale yellow or white. All instars have thin, black setae on the first and third abdominal segments. On the eighth abdominal segment, there is one tuft of black setae. The caterpillar will reach a length of 50 mm (2.0 in). [3]
The spongy moth (Lymantria dispar), formerly known as the gypsy moth, was introduced in 1868 into the United States by Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, a French scientist living in Medford, Massachusetts. Because native silk-spinning caterpillars were susceptible to disease, Trouvelot imported the species in order to breed a more resistant hybrid ...
Megalopyge opercularis is a moth of the family Megalopygidae.It has numerous common names, including southern flannel moth for its adult form, and puss caterpillar, asp, Italian asp, fire caterpillar, woolly slug, opossum bug, [3] puss moth, tree asp, or asp caterpillar.
Xestia elimata, the southern variable dart or variable climbing caterpillar, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Achille Guenée in 1852. It is found in the eastern part of North America, including Georgia , Tennessee , North Carolina , New Jersey , Maryland and New England .