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The eastern tent caterpillar (Malacosoma americanum) is a species of moth in the family Lasiocampidae, the tent caterpillars or lappet moths. It is univoltine , producing one generation per year. It is a tent caterpillar , a social species that forms communal nests in the branches of trees.
Some species, such as the eastern tent caterpillar, Malacosoma americanum, and caterpillars of the small eggar moth, Eriogaster lanestris, build a single large tent which is typically occupied through the whole of the larval stage, while others build a series of small tents that are sequentially abandoned.
This is a list of butterflies and moths—species of the order ... Eastern tent caterpillar moth, Malacosoma americanum; Forest tent caterpillar moth, Malacosoma ...
Malacosoma is a genus of moth in the family Lasiocampidae first described by Jacob Hübner in 1820. [2] ... Malacosoma americanum (Fabricius, 1793) Malacosoma ...
The Lasiocampidae are a family of moths also known as eggars, tent caterpillars, snout moths (although this also refers to the Pyralidae), or lappet moths. Over 2,000 species occur worldwide, and probably not all have been named or studied. It is the sole family in superfamily Lasiocampoidea.
The Psychidae (bagworm moths, also simply bagworms or bagmoths) are a family of the Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths). The bagworm family is fairly small, with about 1,350 species [ 2 ] described. Bagworm species are found globally, with some, such as the snailcase bagworm ( Apterona helicoidella ), in modern times settling continents where ...
Malacosoma americanum, the eastern tent caterpillar, a moth species that forms communal nests in the branches of trees; Mammut americanum, the American mastodon, an extinct North American mammal species that lived from about 3.7 million years ago until about 10,000 years BC; Megatherium americanum, an extinct ground sloth species endemic to ...
North American moths represent about 12,000 types of moths. In comparison, there are about 825 species of North American butterflies . The moths (mostly nocturnal ) and butterflies (mostly diurnal ) together make up the taxonomic order Lepidoptera .