Orange-tipped oakworm moth
The orange-tipped oakworm moth is a yellow orange moth speckled with black dots, with a little silver white spot on each front wing. The males are smaller and reddish brown. Its caterpillar is black with orange stripes and spiky horns.
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Fun facts
The caterpillars hatch from big egg clusters and stay together in a group.
A fully grown caterpillar is about 5 centimetres long.
When it is time to become a pupa, the caterpillar digs down into the ground.
The caterpillars eat so late in summer that the oak trees are usually not badly hurt.
Most asked questions about Orange-tipped oakworm moth
?What does the orange-tipped oakworm eat?
The caterpillars eat oak leaves. The adult moths do not eat at all.
?Is the oakworm caterpillar dangerous?
It looks spiky, but it is not known to hurt people. Just watch it and do not squeeze it.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anisota senatoria
- Named by
- Smith, 1797
- Group
- Moths
- Family
- Saturniidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Saturniidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Orangestriped oakworm
Where the facts come from
- Anisota senatoria (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 Greg Dwyer. CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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