Good Morning EveryoneToday I thought you might find this beautiful moth of some interest.
CharacteristicsThe cecropia moth is the largest North American moth. It has a wingspan of 5-6 inches. It is a very colorful moth. it has a red body with white stripes. reddish-brown wings with crescent-shaped white marks and eyespots on the upper tips. The edges of its wings are a light tan. The cecropia caterpillar is about four inches in length and is greenish-blue and it has two rows of red, yellow, and blue spiny tubercles on its body.
DietThe cercopia caterpillar eats the leaves of many trees and shrubs, including ash, birch, box elder, alder, elm, maple, poplar, wild cherry, plum, willow, apple, and lilac. The cercopia moth does not eat. It’s only purpose it to mate. It only lives for a few weeks.Life CycleThe female cecropia moth lays rows of eggs on both sides of a leaf on a tree or shrub. The eggs hatch in 10-14 days and the caterpillars begin eating the host tree or shrub’s leaves. The cecropia cocoon is crescent shaped and is attached to a tree branch. There is one generation of cecropia born each yearBelow are the different stages from Eggs to varying stages of caterpillar, as they get larger and larger, and changing colour. Then finally as it goes into a cocoon before finally emerging into the beautiful moth
BehaviourThe cercopia moth is mostly nocturnal and is rarely seen in the dayRangeThe cecropia moth is found east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and southern Canada.HabitatThe cercopia moth can be found in open areas with trees.
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Evening Villagers. SUSAN I loved your post today, thank you. You be very careful not to be overdoing it with your gardening. ANN, I hope your back improves. NICK, I love Thumper and Rabbitha, and those gorgeous Goldfinch`s on your feeders. JOYCE, your`s and Tony`s ring look lovely and I am so pleased your jeweler could help you both with a replacement. MARION, I logged on about 10/15 minutes ago, and just cruised down the page, looking in on some of your links and saw your post to me. Thank you. I am really looking forward to going away now as there have been too many meetings, and a bit of agro setting in with some of the newer committee members. I wont be available by phone or e-mails, blisssss. JILL I am going back to Brandon, where I used to live before coming back to Devon. I am hoping to meet my half Brother`s friend who actually helped him find his birth mother`s family. She lives near Dunwhich, and I have heard so much about her, it will be lovely to meet her. We didnt have time to go and see her the last time I went back, 2 years ago, so this time we are making the effort. I return Thursday next week.
My No: 3 Son visited this evening, so I am all behind with the washing and packing, so now I must go and get the washing into the tumble drier and start packing.
To you all, I wish you good health and happiness. Goodnight to all still up, take care.
Susan, just realised I had not thanked you for the two great posts of yesterday and today,how on earth do you find the time? Wet windy and chilly here today.the sea quite rough Holly not keen to let the water over her paws !,She did find a piece of driftwood the length of herself carried it a few yards guess who had no camera xx
Evening Villagers. SUSAN I loved your post today, thank you. You be very careful not to be overdoing it with your gardening.
ANN, I hope your back improves.
NICK, I love Thumper and Rabbitha, and those gorgeous Goldfinch`s on your feeders.
JOYCE, your`s and Tony`s ring look lovely and I am so pleased your jeweler could help you both with a replacement.
MARION, I logged on about 10/15 minutes ago, and just cruised down the page, looking in on some of your links and saw your post to me. Thank you. I am really looking forward to going away now as there have been too many meetings, and a bit of agro setting in with some of the newer committee members. I wont be available by phone or e-mails, blisssss.
JILL I am going back to Brandon, where I used to live before coming back to Devon. I am hoping to meet my half Brother`s friend who actually helped him find his birth mother`s family.
She lives near Dunwhich, and I have heard so much about her, it will be lovely to meet her. We didnt have time to go and see her the last time I went back, 2 years ago, so this time we are making the effort.
I return Thursday next week.
My No: 3 Son visited this evening, so I am all behind with the washing and packing, so now I must go and get the washing into the tumble drier and start packing.
To you all, I wish you good health and happiness.
Goodnight to all still up, take care.
Lorna – I hope you have a lovely time and get to do all the visiting you want to this time and have a really relaxing time xxx
Hi John, got your e-mail just before I came back on here and have e-mailed you back.
I will sort it and post it tomorrow for you if thats ok. xxx
Susan, just realised I had not thanked you for the two great posts of yesterday and today,how on earth do you find the time?
Wet windy and chilly here today.the sea quite rough Holly not keen to let the water over her paws !,She did find a piece of driftwood the length of herself carried it a few yards guess who had no camera xx
Night night everyone – glad you enjoyed the pictures – see you tomorrow xxx