My favorite caterpillar and cocoon searches happen to be in silk moth family, which includes the promethia, polyphemus and cecropia moth. Fortunately, these silk moth caterpillars and the cocoons ...

At the end of summer, the full-grown, roughly 5-inch-long caterpillar will seal itself in a cocoon. An adult cecropia moth will emerge the following spring, immediately plunging into the fast ...

During summer, it takes a cecropia caterpillar approximately five weeks to reach the cocoon stage. The following spring, it emerges as an adult. Psst—meet the colorful moths you can see during ...

Once it is in its final instar, the insect will continue to eat as much as it can for about a week or two, before creating its cocoon and entering into its pupae stage. The cecropia moth's pupae ...

Cecropia moths have only one brood each year; they overwinter as cocoons. This summer’s caterpillars are next summer’s moths. An easily identified silk moth is the Luna moth, with its ...

On a young red maple tree, a newly enclosed cecropia moth slowly pumped its wings. Freshly emerged from its cocoon, it has one mission: to reproduce in the next one to two weeks of its adult lifespan.

In a post shared on Facebook this Thursday, Toronto's Urban Forestry account uploaded a picture of a cecropia moth cocoon, an insect found throughout the majority of Canadian provinces. " ...

So I looked it up and discovered it was the caterpillar of the Cecropia moth, which is the largest moth in North America. Earlier this year, I found a cocoon on the same spirea bush and I looked ...