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Are Polyphemus Moth Caterpillar poisonous?
A Antheraea Polyphemus caterpillar is completely harmless to humans and animals. It belongs to a family of the Cyclops Polyphemus and has no venom or any other harmful things.
Why does it shed its skin?
A caterpillar sheds its skin because its skin gets too tight. The caterpillar needs to grow so that is why it sheds its skin. Eventually the caterpillar will turn into a crysalis or the pupa stage.
Is caterpillar the name of a baby moth?
Well it depends what kind of yellow caterpillar you are talking about, if the one you are suggesting about is the size and thickness of your thumb, then yes it is, it's proper name is a "Polyphemus Moth Caterpillar". Polyphemus eat maple, birch, willow and several other trees, but are seldom abundant enough to cause any damage. As big as they are, they are really hard to see among the foliage when they're resting. As with many caterpillars that leave the food plant to spin a cocoon, Polyphemus are sometimes seen wandering around in late summer. This caterpillar spins a tough, brown, oval cocoon that you may find attached to the eaves around your house during the winter.
Why does Odysseus lie and say his ship was destroyed?
In hopes of Polyphemus' pity. He hoped that if Polyphemus thought his ship was crashed, Polyphemus would offer trade or something of that sort
Why caterpillar need to shed their skin when they grow but humans do not?
Because humans shed skin all the time. You shed something like 5-10 grams of dead skin a week, and it's the main component of household dust.
What is that black fuzzy thing that a caterpillar produces?
It is the skin that it sheds.
What do you call the process of a caterpillar sheddig?
Caterpillars after coming out from the eggs after hatching eats all day and night for about 25 to 30 days. As it eats more food than its weight of the body, their skin splits and they have the need to shed their skin.
What happens to the skin of the larva or caterpillar as it grows?
what happens to the caterpillars skin when it grows up is it comes off.
Do caterpillars eat the skin they shed?
YES, they do eat the skin they have shed. I've watched this occur in my garden & I have a video of it. It's probably filled with nutrients for the growing caterpillar. There are 5 instars, or stages of growth. After they shed their skin, they grow to the next instar, then shed their skin again. This happens 5 times, then the caterpillar goes into a chrysalis and eventually emerges as a butterfly.
How do i get the hairs of the caterpillars out of your skin?
well how did you get caterpillar hairs in you in the first place... and how can you see them
What is called when a caterpillar craws out of its own skin?
It is called shedding. Not to be confused with it's metamorphosis.
How many times does the caterpillar shed its skin?
Five times during the larval stage.
