Posts Tagged: Noctuid
Celebrate Moths at the Bohart Museum on Saturday Night, July 30
Ready...set...go! It's almost time to celebrate moths! How much do you know about moths? Do you...
UC Davis entomology graduate student Jessica Gillung shows Atlas moths from the Bohart Museum collection. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
These moths are Rothschildia cincta, also known as giant silkworm moths. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
As the Worm Turns
There it was. A green caterpillar, aka larva, aka worm, occupied a blanket flower (Gaillardia)...
Buddies? A honey bee edges toward a Noctuid caterpillar. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
If two is company, is three a crowd? Painted Lady, honey bee and Noctuid caterpillar on blanket flower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Getting the Red Out
What's that?When award-winning photographer Teresa Willis of Vacaville encountered a red...
Larvae of an owlet moth turned bright red by the parasitic nematode Heterorhabditis bacteriophora. (Photo by Teresa Willis)
Red caterpillar on the move--but it probably won't be eaten by birds. (Photo by Teresa Willis)
Cutting It
The dull brown moth may be dull-looking but as noctuid cutworms they're not. We spotted this...
Noctuid Cutworm