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8) Food resources. a. caterpillars i. host plant preferences and selection (selection only possible for a few like army worms) ii. non-plant foods (e.g. predatory larvae) iii. plant stimulants and deterrents to herbivory; b. adults i. adult diet (e.g. nectar, feces, urine, corpses, tree sap, honey dew, pollen) ii. pollination; 9) Parental care ...
The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a 1969 children's picture book designed, illustrated, and written by American children's author and illustrator Eric Carle.The plot follows a very hungry caterpillar that consumes a variety of foods before pupating and becoming a butterfly.
Lepidoptera are among the most successful groups of insects. They are found on all continents, except Antarctica. Lepidoptera inhabit all terrestrial habitats ranging from desert to rainforest, from lowland grasslands to montane plateaus but almost always associated with higher plants, especially angiosperms (flowering plants). [1]
Pages in category "Category-Class Lepidoptera pages" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 2,644 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Global Lepidoptera is an updated version of the Lepidoptera Names Index (Lepindex), curated in TaxonWorks. Many groups still have inaccuracies and errors carried over from Lepindex,but some familiees and superfamilies have seen significant updates (see list in status box below).
Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects is a series of books produced by the Royal Entomological Society (RES). The aim of the Handbooks is to provide illustrated identification keys to the insects of Britain, together with concise morphological, biological and distributional information.
WikiProject Lepidoptera is running its own library of sources. If you would like to use any of the listed sources in a Lepidoptera article, please contact the respective owner, listed above each source collection. If you have sources relating to the Lepidoptera WikiProject, please add your name to the list of personal libraries.
180,000 species of Lepidoptera are described, equivalent to 10% of the total described species of living organisms. [1] This is a list of the diversity of the Lepidoptera showing the estimated number of genera and species described for each superfamily and, where available, family. See Lepidoptera for a note of the schedule of families used.