Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Moth of the Month - The Io Moth...

The giant silkworm moths in the family Saturniidae are some of the most spectacular moths going. I've already featured a couple of species in earlier blogs but here is one of my favorites. The Io Moth is one of the smaller silkmoths but what it lacks in size in more than makes up with it's striking patten. It is fairly common in southern Ontario where reasonable tracts of woodland persist. The larvae feed on a variety of host plants, including birches, elms, maples and willows. A generalist you could say.


This is a male. A bit smaller than the female and mostly bright yellow in colour. This individual was photographed near Parry Sound, Ontario.


This is the more reddish female. This one was photographed near South Walsingham, Ontario. Don't you just love those vivid eye spots on the hind wings!

10 Comments:

Blogger themothman said...

Hmmm. The eye spots must have been particularly toublesome...

8:14 AM  
Blogger themothman said...

Kinda depends on what sort of bird we are dealing with here. Please enlighten me grinchy...

6:44 AM  
Blogger themothman said...

Yer talkin' gibberish grinchh...

6:42 AM  
Blogger themothman said...

Isn't he a tease boys and girls...

7:37 AM  
Blogger themothman said...

Gosh, what a pleasure to welcome back the enigmatic Ms Dong...where have you been all this time? The timing of your message is most intriguing...

I'm sure all my readers (including the MM himself) would love to hear more of your inside knowledge regarding the grinchh's romantic encounters...second thoughts maybe not...true to say this is almost certainly NOT the forum for such discussion...though what does everyone else think???

6:45 PM  
Blogger themothman said...

BTW grinchh, just what do you know about Christmas bird counts anyway...which count was it? Please tell...maybe Oshawa??? Just a wild guess...

6:48 PM  
Blogger themothman said...

Well MS I sort of agree - but it is kinda sordid and strangely fascinating...isn't it?

7:17 PM  
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