Who doesn’t get excited upon finding a huge moth? While we don’t have ... The young don’t descend as a horde like some caterpillars, instead Polyphemus caterpillars are solitary, eating ...

Explores various types of insect homes and their life cycles. It discusses how insects like moths, webworms ... Keywords insects, homes, life cycle, cocoon, larvae, pupa, webworms, spittle ...

In June I wrote a column about an unfortunate Polyphemus moth that hatched out of ... the majority of a Polyphemus' life is spent as a caterpillar; as a caterpillar they eat and grow.

Both butterflies and moths have a four-part life cycle: egg, larva (caterpillar), cocoon (moth) or chrysalis (butterfly), and winged adult. The caterpillar phase is perhaps the most interesting.

The fantastic green ribbed caterpillar with a tan face, fine hairs and yellow, orange and pink raised dots was the larva of a polyphemus moth — a large silk moth, similar in its larval stage to ...