Ceanothus silk moth
The ceanothus silk moth is a big reddish brown moth with black and white spots. It has fluffy black feelers. Its wing spots look like the eyes of a bigger animal, which scares hungry birds away.
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Fun facts
A grown-up moth lives only about one or two weeks, because it cannot eat.
Its caterpillar starts out black and turns green. It has yellow to orange red spikes on its back.
It spends the winter inside a silk cocoon that can survive minus 30 degrees.
The moths fly at night and find each other by smell, using their fluffy feelers.
Native people in California put its cocoons into hand rattles.
Most asked questions about Ceanothus silk moth
?How big is the ceanothus silk moth?
Its wings are 9 to 13 centimetres across, as big as a grown-up's hand.
?What does the ceanothus silk moth eat?
The adult eats nothing at all. The caterpillar eats leaves of many trees and bushes.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hyalophora euryalus
- Named by
- Boisduval, 1855
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Saturniidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Saturniidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Ceanothus silkmoth
Where the facts come from
- Hyalophora euryalus (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 (c) Laura Gaudette, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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