![]() As they pass through the second and third instars, their body color and stripes begin to darken. Their legs are black and have yellow tips. Their bodies are sparsely covered with short setae. The second body segments of the larvae have two yellow tubercles, each terminating with two setae. ![]() During the early instars, the larvae have shiny black heads and yellow bodies with black dorsal lines running vertically. Only by the 4th instar do the larvae feed independently. During the first three instars, the larvae live and eat together. Rosy maple moth larvae go through five instar stages. Depending on where their host trees are, rosy maple moths have also been found in suburban areas.įemale rosy maple moths lay their fertilized eggs 24 hours after mating on the underside of the host leaf and then depart. They are most often associated with red maples ( Acer rubrum), sugar maples ( Acer saccharum), silver maples ( Acer saccharinum), turkey oaks ( Quercus laevis) and box elder maples ( Acer negundo). Rosy maple moths inhabit temperate deciduous forests of eastern North America. As the name implies, rosy maple moths mainly feed on Maples, particularly Red Maple, Silver Maple, and Sugar Maple. ![]() Males have bushier antennae than females. They have reddish-to-pink legs and antennae, yellow bodies and hindwings, and pink forewings with a triangular yellow band across the middle. ![]() Males have a wingspan of 32–44 mm females of 40–50 mm. The Rosy Maple Moth ( Dryocampa rubicunda) is a North American moth in the Saturniidae family. ![]()
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