and the common clearwing hummingbird moth (Hemaris thysbe). Typically, their coloring includes shades of red and brown, which can look quite similar to the rufous hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus).
The browntail moth caterpillar is approximately 1.5 inches long. Its body is brown with a broken white stripe on both sides and two orange-red spots on the tail. You can see the hairs covering its ...
Justine Paradis: Kyle Lombard is a forest entomologist with the New Hampshire Division of Forests and Lands. In the summer of ...
Or the chocolate moth, which is dark brown with light ... under forewings patterned like broken glass, the ultronia’s red and black, and the Io moth’s huge, eye-like spots – which are ...
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