IO Moth Lifecycle; Automeris io
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Automeris io |
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Caterpillars eat various host plants (larval food plants) including Hackberry, Redbud, Sugarberry, Pear, Red Bay, Willow, Swamp Bay, and Blackberry. |
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from eggs on hackberry. |
and stay together |
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are a social group, staying together on the plant. |
color, they follow each other whereever they go |
is in the center while four larvae circle it. |
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becomes apparant that the caterpillar is an Io Moth |
grouped together |
caterpillars are loners. |
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Io caterpillars is '7', underneath a leaf. This caterpillar is eating Red Bay. |
wings open |
for adult Io moths |
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antennae are feathered |
sting badly, adult moths cannot hurt you. |
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