Polyphemus moths overwinter in their silken cocoons ... on a host plant. The caterpillars feed on a wide variety of deciduous trees, for example, oaks, maples, willow and birch, all of which ...

Fortuitously a reader in Pennsylvania read this column and wrote to me after rescuing a beleaguered Polyphemus moth from a parking lot. She, Carol Guenther, jewelry designer and now caterpillar ...

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 ...

The researchers also found moths' wing pattern development, which begins when they are caterpillars ... were inconsistent between the io and polyphemus moths, potentially due to the different ...

Moth caterpillars, aka larvae ... the multihued reddish-brown cecropia moth and the large yellowish-brown Polyphemus moth. Cocoons have long been hibernating in leaf litter and soil but have ...