Found throughout the eastern United States and Canada, this silk moth’s unique pale green color and long tails make it easy ...

Spicebush, sassafras, sweet bay, white ash, and lilac all serve as host plants. As moths and butterflies do, the promethea silk moth starts its life as a caterpillar. After feeding on the leaves ...

The caterpillar, along with most others in the Saturniidae family, spins a silk cocoon. This is where it then spends its time as a pupa, the stage of development before the moth becomes an adult.

It undergoes five larval stages, or instars, before it is mature enough to transform into a pupa, or chrysalis, by wrapping itself in a cocoon made of coarse brown silk (this moth belongs to the ...