Posts Tagged: noctuid

Celebrate Moths at the Bohart Museum on Saturday Night, July 30

Ready...set...go! It's almost time to celebrate moths! How much do you know about moths? Do you know the difference between a moth and a butterfly?...

UC Davis entomology graduate student Jessica Gillung shows Atlas moths from the Bohart Museum collection. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

UC Davis entomology graduate student Jessica Gillung shows Atlas moths from the Bohart Museum collection. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

These moths are Rothschildia cincta, also known as giant silkworm moths. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

These moths are Rothschildia cincta, also known as giant silkworm moths. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

As the Worm Turns

There it was. A green caterpillar, aka larva, aka worm, occupied a blanket flower (Gaillardia) last Friday morning in...

Buddies? A honey bee edges toward a Noctuid caterpillar. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Buddies? A honey bee edges toward a Noctuid caterpillar. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

If two is company, is three a crowd? Painted Lady, honey bee and Noctuid caterpillar on blanket flower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

If two is company, is three a crowd? Painted Lady, honey bee and Noctuid caterpillar on blanket flower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Getting the Red Out

What's that?When award-winning photographer Teresa Willis of Vacaville encountered a red caterpillar on a dirt road at about 6000 feet in a...

Larvae of an owlet moth turned bright red by the parasitic nematode Heterorhabditis bacteriophora. (Photo by Teresa Willis)

Larvae of an owlet moth turned bright red by the parasitic nematode Heterorhabditis bacteriophora. (Photo by Teresa Willis)

Red caterpillar on the move--but it probably won't be eaten by birds. (Photo by Teresa Willis)

Red caterpillar on the move--but it probably won't be eaten by birds. (Photo by Teresa Willis)

Cutting It

The dull brown moth may be dull-looking but as noctuid cutworms they're not. We spotted this noctuid cutworm, soon to be a dull brown moth, last...

Noctuid Cutworm

NOCTUID CUTWORM, soon to be a dull brown moth, crawls on a yarrow at the Storer Garden, UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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