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 ...

About an inch smaller, and lacking the cecropia's conspicuous knobs, is the caterpillar of the polyphemus moth, our second largest Lepidoptera. This one is fluorescent green with six oblique ...

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 ...

Polyphemus moths are named after the mythological ... to find as many females as they can and procreate. Polyphemus caterpillars are no slouch, either. Once they hatch, Polyphemus caterpillars ...