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  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Cycnia tenera - Wikipedia

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    Dogbane tiger moth larva. This moth has several generations per year through much of its range, so caterpillars may be found from June to November. [4] Eggs are laid in clutches of 50–100. Larvae are reported to feed in aggregations of five to seven, at least in the early instars. [1] Caterpillars are covered all over in soft grey to whitish ...

  6. 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 .

  7. 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 .

  8. Arctia plantaginis - Wikipedia

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    Arctia plantaginis, the wood tiger, is a moth of the family Erebidae. Several subspecies are found in the Holarctic ecozone south to Anatolia , Transcaucasus , northern Iran, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China , Korea and Japan.

  9. Halysidota harrisii - Wikipedia

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    Caterpillar. Halysidota harrisii, the sycamore tiger moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae and the tribe Arctiini, the tiger moths. The species was first described by Benjamin Dann Walsh in 1864. [1] It is found in southeastern Canada, the eastern parts of the United States, and northeastern Mexico.