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  2. Pyrrharctia isabella - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Garden tiger moth - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Arctiinae - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  5. Lophocampa caryae - Wikipedia

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    Lophocampa caryae, the hickory tiger moth, hickory tussock moth, or hickory halisidota, is a moth in the family Erebidae and the tribe Arctiini, the tiger moths. The species is widely distributed in the eastern half of North America . [ 1 ]

  6. Spilosoma virginica - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Euchaetes egle - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  8. Lophocampa argentata - Wikipedia

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    Lophocampa argentata, the silver-spotted tiger moth, is a species of moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Packard in 1864. It is found from British Columbia to southern California , and east to Arizona , Nevada , New Mexico , Colorado , Utah , Wyoming and possibly to northern Mexico .

  9. Arctiini - Wikipedia

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    The afrotropical tiger-moths. An illustrated catalogue, with generic diagnosis and species distribution, of the afrotropical arctiinae (Lepidoptera: arctiidae). Apollo Books Aps.: Stenstrup, Denmark, 55 pp. Watson, A. (1971). "An illustrated Catalog of the Neotropic Arctiinae type in the United States National Museum (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae ...