Rosy maple moth
The rosy maple moth looks like a fluffy candy. It has a woolly yellow body and pink and yellow wings. It is the smallest of the giant silk moths and loves maple trees.
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Fun facts
Its colours can change a lot: some are cream or white, and others are bright pink and yellow.
Its caterpillar is called the greenstriped mapleworm.
The mother lays 150 to 200 yellow eggs in little groups under maple leaves.
Young caterpillars eat together in a group, but bigger ones like to eat alone.
The caterpillar stays on the same tree all its life and then turns into a pupa in the soil under that tree.
Most asked questions about Rosy maple moth
?Is the rosy maple moth poisonous?
No. It is harmless and cannot bite or sting.
?What does a rosy maple moth eat?
The adult moth does not eat. The caterpillars eat maple leaves.
?How big is a rosy maple moth?
Its wings are only 3.2 to 5 centimetres across, small for a silk moth.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Dryocampa rubicunda
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1793
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Saturniidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Saturniidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Dryocampa rubicunda (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Mike Boone. CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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