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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Silkworm, Sphinx, and Royal Moths (Bombycoidea) » Giant Silkworm and Royal Moths (Saturniidae) » Buck and Io Moths (Hemileucinae) » Hemileucini » Automeris » Io Moth - Hodges#7746 (Automeris io)
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caterpillar - Automeris io
Copyright © 2008 DRStiehl

caterpillar - Automeris io
VanEtten, Chemung County, New York, USA
September 8, 2008
Size: aprox 1 3/8"
I laid down some landscape cloth and then found this crawling around on it. around 11am
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Contributed by DRStiehl on 8 September, 2008 - 11:07am
Last updated 13 September, 2008 - 4:34am

Cropped and moved.
I cropped this image to get a better view of the caterpillar.

The Food section of the Info Page has a list of many different host plants.

From what I know of these, if you find one, there will be many more at a near-by food source. I find these every year on hibiscus trees at my Mother-in-laws. They will eat all of the leaves off of the two trees that she has. I find it strange that with the hundreds of caterpillars that I see there every year, I have never seen any moths.

How has your project progressed?
… Ron M., 13 September, 2008 - 4:46am login or register to post comments

Io Moth
Automeris io. Do not touch. Urticating spines.
… Harry Zirlin, 8 September, 2008 - 11:50am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you Harry, do you know
Thank you Harry, do you know what they feed on? I'd like to try to keep it till is changes into the moth. Thanks for the do not touch warning, I thought I remembered something like that so I picked him up with a spade shovel.
… DRStiehl, 8 September, 2008 - 12:48pm login or register to post comments

 
Almost any tree
Try cherry, elm, oak, willow. See what it prefers.
… john and jane balaban, 8 September, 2008 - 5:39pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks John & Jane
I put a few different branches in and it seems ok sofar. Can't wait to see him "all grown up" they look beautiful.
… DRStiehl, 8 September, 2008 - 7:02pm login or register to post comments

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