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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 ...
Some species in the Satyrinae use ferns as larval host plants, and it is not impossible that the butterflies could have originated before their present-day angiosperm plant hosts. Evidence from the historical diversification of fifteen butterfly groups that show an increase in the diversification rates that follow major host shifts. [3]
Butterfly larvae, or caterpillars, consume plant leaves and spend practically all of their time searching for and eating food. Although most caterpillars are herbivorous, a few species are predators : Spalgis epius eats scale insects , [ 48 ] while lycaenids such as Liphyra brassolis are myrmecophilous , eating ant larvae.
Caterpillar foraging Woolly Bear. This species is a generalist feeder, consuming many plant species, including herbs and trees. [1] Based on the caterpillars' wide range of food plants, this moth could be found almost anywhere that plants grow. [8]
Pieris rapae is a small- to medium-sized butterfly species of the whites-and-yellows family Pieridae.It is known in Europe as the small white, in North America as the cabbage white or cabbage butterfly, [note 1] on several continents as the small cabbage white, and in New Zealand as the white butterfly. [2]
That the avian predators avoided the queen butterfly implies that the queen does not serve as a model and the viceroy as a parasitic mimic; rather, they may be Müllerian co-mimics. [18] When avian predators were exposed to butterfly abdomina without the wings, many avian predators rejected the viceroy after a single peck.
Although monarch caterpillars will feed on butterfly weed (A. tuberosa) in butterfly gardens, it is typically not a heavily used host plant for the species. [238] The plant has rough leaves and a layer of trichomes, which may inhibit oviposition or decrease a female's ability to sense leaf chemicals.
Host plants are in the families Asteraceae, Passifloraceae, Sterculiaceae, Tiliaceae, and Urticaceae. Limenitidinae; The nymphaline clade (sister group of the heliconiine clade, also includes tribes Coeini and Pseudergolini) Apaturinae (mostly tropical) Host plants are in the family Ulmaceae. Caterpillars are smooth with bifid tails and horns ...