Short brown hairs emanating from red spots. Spotting the caterpillars is the easiest way to identify this pest, but you may ...

It's not a butterfly — it's a moth! Learn how to identify the promethea silk moth, a beautifully patterned backyard visitor.

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The head is coated with reddish hairs. The larvae can reach 13mm ... Larvae can reach 12mm and are white with a hardened, brown head capsule and one ocelli (simple eyes). The case-bearing moth derives ...

Or the chocolate moth, which is dark brown with light ... under forewings patterned like broken glass, the ultronia’s red and black, and the Io moth’s huge, eye-like spots – which are ...