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Like the other two red-breasted Petroica robins—the scarlet robin and the red-capped robin—it is often simply called the robin redbreast. Like many brightly coloured robins of the Petroicidae, it is sexually dimorphic. Measuring 12–14 cm (4.7–5.5 in) long, the flame robin has dark brown eyes and a small thin black bill.
Cutworms are moth larvae that hide under litter or soil during the day, coming out in the dark to feed on plants. A larva typically attacks the first part of the plant it encounters, namely the stem, often of a seedling, and consequently cuts it down; hence the name cutworm. Cutworms are not worms, biologically speaking, but caterpillars.
[29] [33] They will also eat seed mixtures and suet placed on bird-tables, as well as left-overs. [28] [34] [35] The robin is even known to feed on small vertebrates (including fish and lizards) and carrion. [36] Male robins are very territorial and will fiercely attack other males and competitors that stray into their territories.
Gonimbrasia belina is a species of emperor moth which is native to the warmer parts of southern Africa.Its large edible caterpillar, known as the mopane worm, madora, amacimbi “pigeon moth”, masonja or Seboko sa Mongana, feeds primarily but not exclusively on mopane tree leaves.
The Japanese robin is about 14-15 centimeters in size. [5] This bird species is mainly gray and bright orange. [6] The male Japanese robin is olive brown from the top of the head to rump, with an orange face and neck, and a grey breast and underside.
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The clear and ringing song is delivered in a series of short phrases, sometimes simultaneously by competing males. [6] Singing peaks at dawn and dusk, [15] and consists of passages of whistled syllables, cherooo-weet-weet-weeeet, followed by a pause. Each passage, consisting of 4 to 10 syllables, starts with a low, slurred whistle, which is ...
Its consumption of toxic plants makes it distasteful to most predators. An exception is the smooth-billed ani (Crotophaga ani), which tears the caterpillar apart to eat it, avoiding the gut containing the plant material. The caterpillar is also coated in barbed urticating hairs, which stick deeply in skin and cause irritation. If caught, the ...