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Caterpillars
Caterpillars are the larval form of butterflies and moths and eat leaves voraciously.
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What would you use to measure a length of a caterpillar?
cenimeters or decimeters and sometimes inches it depends on the insect
How long does a caterpillar stay in a chrysalis?
The caterpillar remains in the chrysalis for as little as 2 weeks as the body is transformed into the body of a butterfly. Some species sit over winter, and the butterfly emerges in the spring.
A few days before the emergence of the adult butterfly, the chrysalis becomes translucent, and the butterfly coloring and wings are visible though the chrysalis. The chrysalis splits, and a new butterfly is born.
What type of caterpillar is yellow with a black head and eats white oak leaves?
The Yellownecked caterpillar is yellow with a black head. This particular caterpillar also likes to eat the leaves of the white oak tree.
How does a caterpillar make its cocoon?
The caterpillars eat and eat and eat until they have filled themselves up with food to spare for months. Then, it will find a safe spot and use it's siliva, a mixture of it's food, and some surrounding leaves to create a little "shelter" while it transforms into a butterfly or moth. Hope this helps. =)
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.
How and what do you feed a wooly bear caterpillar?
To take care of a Woolly Bear caterpillar you must feed it and give it water, air, and an appropriate environment. You can use a cardboard box that has air holes and be sure and make some covered windows so you can watch it grow! You can also order a special net cage that you can hang up in order to see them clearly. It doesn't cost much, and teachers often buy them for their classes.
Woolly Bears are born during warm weather. If you find a baby you should put cuttings with leaves on them in its cage so it will have something to climb on and leaves to eat. The best cuttings are from the same plant you found it on.
An adult Woolly Bear caterpillar likes many kinds plants, especially bitter ones. It eats clover, birch, grass, sunflowers, dandelions, weed, nettles, maple, herbs and aster. You can feed it spinach and cabbage from your refrigerator, but it would prefer to eat food from the area it lived in when you caught it. It would also love to have some flowers or fruit to munch on. Sprinkle the bottom of the cage with clean, grass every day so it has something to eat when it gets tired of climbing on the branches. Take the old grass out before you put the fresh grass in.
Woolly Bear caterpillars do drink. Sprinkle the leaves lightly with water in the morning so it can drink the "dew."
As adults, they like to find a rock or a hole in a log to hide in, so be sure and give it a place to hide. They are looking for a place to sleep (hibernate) in the winter just like a bear. You will know when it is preparing to hibernate because it will become nice and plump. If you live in a warm area, it may not hibernate, but if it does, you do not have to feed it. It will stop breathing and its body will become very cold to preserve the energy it usually gets from food.
In the spring, you must be sure it has tall enough branches to hang its cocoon on; it will spin a fuzzy, warm cocoon to stay in while in changes into a moth. This mysterious process is called "metamorphisis." If you search online, you can see photos of the adult Isabella tiger moth that will eventually eat its way out of the cocoon.
When it comes out, do not try to help it. Struggling to get out of the cocoon is what makes its wings strong so you can release it into your garden and watch it flutter happily away.
How slow does a caterpillar move?
It depends on how the caterpillar is feeling. If it feels threatend, excited or full of energy it will run very quickly. If it's sleepy, relaxed or lazy it will move very slowly or it won't move at all.
So if your keeping one for a pet when you change the grass and whatever your feeding it you should make somebody watch it and make shure it doesn't run away.
What kind of caterpillar has four large white hairy tufts on its back?
It is probably a white-marked Tussock Moth. If it has numerous red spots, it's the western variety, either way it's in the family lymantriidae. Other defining features are long black lashes and a bright red head.
Is the hickory horned devil predator or prey?
It only eats vegetation and due to it's appearance it's not likely to be prey.
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The regal moth typically has only a single generation per year, although a few late collection records suggest the possibility of a small second brood in the deep south. In Florida adults have been collected in May, but are more common during the summer. Adults have vestigial mouthparts. Adults mate during the second evening after emergence and begin oviposition at dusk of the third evening. Eggs hatch in six to 10 days, and the duration of the larval stage is about 35 days.
Larvae have been reported from a variety of host tree species. They are commonly found on species of the family (Juglandaceae) including walnut (Juglans nigra), butternut or white walnut (Juglans cinerea), and a variety of hickories (Caryaspp.) including pecan. In Florida, larvae are frequently found on sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua). Other hosts commonly listed are persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) and sumacs (Rhus spp.). In central Florida, larvae are usually found from late July to mid-August while they are wandering on the ground searching for a suitable location to burrow into the soil for pupation. The pupa is the overwintering stage.
The regal moth is a beautiful and fascinating member of our native fauna, and its larvae should not be killed. If a larva is found crawling on pavement or in an area of thick turf grass where it would have difficulty burrowing, it should be moved to an area of soft soil or a mulched area where it can burrow for pupation.
Do caterpillars like dry or wet places?
they would like to be in a dry place because if they get wet they will die
How long do fuzzy caterpillars cacoon?
This is really depends on the type of caterpillar you have/seen. (whatever)
It can take a few weeks;
but before winter arrives, butterflies have the ability to make the process last for months at a time.
What do caterpillars go into to become a butterfly?
It's a process called metamorphosis - triggered by genes in the caterpillars body. After a caterpillar hatches from an egg, it basically spends all its time eating - growing and preparing its body for the change to a butterfly. During the caterpillar stage, it moults its skin three times - growing larger each time. Eventually, it spins a silk cocoon, and the transformation takes place over a number of days. While hidden in the cocoon, the caterpillars body is literally re-built - growing legs, wings, and flight muscles.
Yes they do because every living thing on Earth needs water and i for one think that if you have a pet inch worm, make cold water in a bottle cap and put sugar into it. I have 2 inch worms and they have been living for 4 days. They love it. hope this helps :3
The front 12 (6 on top and 6 on bottom)
The straight edged are called incisors and are used to cut through medium and soft density foods. Starting in the front are the Central incisors, next to those are the lateral incisors.
The sharp pointy teeth next to those are canine's (or cuspid) and are used for pinning harder density food and tearing it away.
The wider flatter teeth behind those are the molars and their primary use is for crushing and grinding (chewing) food, though some people use them to bite through food as well by shoving something large deeper into the mouth.
What does a caterpillar do once it poops A LOT?
a Caterpillar can dispose of 500 pieces of wast each day
The cycle of life, and food chain is interesting. Yes, Some dragonflies do indeed eat caterpillars, amongst many other insects.
Do caterpillars eat day or night?
Fritillary caterpillars, for example, do not spend all of their time on the foliage of their ... instead hiding in leaf litter or low vegetation during the daytime/
Hope this helps,
-Drew
Yes, they typically feast gratuitously on leaves or grass, but usually leaves. The kind of leaf depends on the species you're referring to, but if you find one in the wild it's probably safe to assume they eat leaves from the types of trees that grow where you found it.
How do caterpillars stick to things?
They live on leaves because they eat them but I haven't herd of the other type of leaf.
What type of insect does a chrysalis turn into?
A butterfly emerges from a chrysalis, which is the butterfly's pupal stage.
Can you tell a monarch caterpillar's from a boy or girl?
it is not possible to tell until the caterpillar has formed into a butterfly
How many Times do caterpillars shed their skin?
From my experience they never molt as catterpillars. I've raised quite a few, but never from the egg, but I don't think most catterpillars molt.
I can tell you it was either a tomato hornworm or a tobacco hornworm. Both are common in North America. Both get up to four inches long. And both like chomping tomato plants.
The tomato hornworm is the larva of the five-spotted hawk moth, Manduca quinquemaculata. It has eight curved white stripes on each side of its body and a straight black spike, or horn, on its bum.
The tobacco hornworm is the larva of the Carolina sphinx moth, Manduca sexta. It has seven diagonal white stripes, and its horn is curved and red.
Sometimes you'll see hornworms with little white things on them. The white things are wasp cocoons! Small, parasitic braconid wasps often lay their eggs on hornworms. The wasp larvae eat the hornworm's innards (yuck) then form cocoons when they're done. Eventually they kill the hornworm. This is good for gardeners but not for the hornworm.
Hawk moths and sphinx moths are also called hummingbird moths. They're really good fliers. They hover while feeding on flowers. They look a lot like hummingbirds!
