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To find a mate, the female cecropia moth emits pheromones which the male detects with its sensitive antennae. Male cecropia moths can detect these pheromones from up to a mile away, although a male may fly up to 7 miles while searching for a female. Mating typically begins early in the morning hours and lasts until the evening.
In captivity, this moth is much more difficult to breed than other American saturniids such as Hyalophora cecropia, Callosamia promethea, or Actias luna. Kept in a cage, the male and female tend to ignore each other, unless a food plant (particularly oak leaves) is present. [citation needed]
Cecropia is a Neotropical genus consisting of 61 recognized species with a highly distinctive lineage of dioecious trees. [1] The genus consists of pioneer trees in the more or less humid parts of the Neotropics , with the majority of the species being myrmecophytic . [ 2 ]
After mating has occurred, the adult female seeks host larvae. Afer finding a suitable host, she attaches to its back using her anal hooks, punctures the host's integument with a piercing structure on her abdomen, and injects a single larva into the host's midgut or body cavity. The female produces about 100 larvae.
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Dryocampa rubicunda, the rosy maple moth, is a small North American moth in the family Saturniidae, also known as the great silk moths. It was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1793. The species is known for its wooly body and pink and yellow coloration, which varies from cream or white to bright pink or yellow. [ 2 ]
Hyalophora cecropia (Linnaeus, 1758) – cecropia moth; Hyalophora columbia (S.I. Smith, 1865) – Columbia silkmoth or larch silkmoth; Hyalophora euryalus (Boisduval, 1855) – ceanothus silkmoth; Hyalophora gloveri Strecker, 1872 – Glover's silkmoth; Hyalophora leonis (Naumann, Nassig & Nogueira, 2014) Hyalophora mexicana (Nässig, Nogueira ...
JH in many butterfly and moth species are necessary for the production and release of the sex pheromone by females. Experiments conducted in Mythimna unipuncta (true armyworm moth) and Agrotis ipsilon (black cutworm moth) have shown that removing the corpus allata, which secretes JH, stops all release of sex pheromone. Furthermore, JH is ...