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Large Yellow Brown Fuzzy Moth (Imperial moth, male)

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Imperial moth
by: Moni

Holly
The male moth has more coloration...more darker colors on the wings than the female. Also the male will have very bushy antenna if you can see them.
The female is larger if you see the two next to each other.
Here is a bugguide photo of both mating - female is the top moth.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/451605/bgimage
Here are more photos...some tell you which sex it is some do not.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/4757/bgimage
Does that help?
Sexing the Imperial Moth
by: Holly Ellison

Moni, Would you please share how to tell the male Imperial Moth apart from the female? I now have 3 of these beauties at my backdoor and would love to know how to differentiate.
Thanks so much for your time! Great site!
Beautiful
by: Lynn

What a beautiful moth! How wonderful to have a site where bugs can be identifiied.
Imperial moth, male
by: Moni

Kati
Your photo is of an Imperial moth. The more yellow color tells me it is a male, the females have more brown markings. This is one of the giant silk moths in the family Saturniidae. Being so large they do fly rather awkwardly.
The adults come to lights at night. They do not feed.
Larva come in a green or brown coloration. According to Bugguide, larvae feed on leaves of Bald Cypress, basswood, birch, cedar, elm, hickory, Honeylocust, maple, oak, pine, Sassafras, Sweetgum, sycamore, and walnut.
The larva pupate in burrows in the soil. The pupa stage is what overwinters, so the adult comes out in summer.
In Newark you probably only have one generation per year.
They are beautiful moths.


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