Underground-pupation

Guides

• Syssphinx bicolor

  honey locust moth

  Syssphinx bicolor, commonly known as the honey locust moth, is a North American saturniid moth with variable wing coloration ranging from grayish to yellow, orange, or dark reddish brown. The species exhibits three annual broods with adults of different color morphs appearing sequentially—grayish first, then yellow to orange-brown, and finally darker with more spotting. Larvae feed on honey locust and Kentucky coffee tree, with distinctive color changes between gregarious young stages and solitary older instars.

  SaturniidaeCeratocampinaeNorth-Americawoodlandlegume-feedermultivoltinecolor-polymorphismunderground-pupation

• Syssphinx blanchardi

  Syssphinx blanchardi is a species of giant silk moth in the family Saturniidae, described by Ferguson in 1971. The species belongs to a genus of smaller saturniids found in southwestern North America and Mexico. Adults are nocturnal and attracted to light sources. Larvae feed on woody leguminous plants and pupate underground. The species is part of a taxonomically complex group that has historically been placed in the genus Sphingicampa.

  SaturniidaeCeratocampinaesilk-mothLepidopteraNorth-AmericaMiddle-Americanocturnalunderground-pupationlegume-feeders