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Historically recorded throughout New England, the species suffered a decline in the Atlantic Northeast during the mid-20th century. Excluding sparse contemporary records from New York , Citheronia regalis achieves range stability in the mid Atlantic states and southern Appalachia , beginning from southern New Jersey west throughout the Ohio ...
The larval stage of C. catalpae is known as the catalpa or catawba worm. When first hatching, the larvae are very pale, but become darker toward the last instars.The yellow caterpillars will usually have a dark, black stripe down their back along with black dots along their sides.
The caterpillar will reach a length of 50 mm (2.0 in). [3] While there are numerous reports of the larval hairs of this species sometimes causing skin irritation in humans, there is no evidence that they possess any form of venom.
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.
Caterpillars are typically voracious feeders and many of them are among the most serious of agricultural pests. In fact, many moth species are best known in their caterpillar stages because of the damage they cause to fruits and other agricultural produce, whereas the moths are obscure and do no direct harm. Conversely, various species of ...
Eacles imperialis is one of a few saturniid species in a regional decline throughout the northeastern US, with some New England states lacking records for many decades. [6] Reasons for the decline have been proposed to be the use of pesticide , insecticides , and herbicides in commercial farming, metal halide street lamps , and the introduction ...
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.
The Arctiinae (formerly called the family Arctiidae) are a large and diverse subfamily of moths with around 11,000 species found all over the world, including 6,000 neotropical species. [1] This subfamily includes the groups commonly known as tiger moths (or tigers), which usually have bright colours, footmen , which are usually much drabber ...