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• Hyalophora cecropia .
• "Cecropia Moth, Robin Moth" .

• How the Cecropia Tree Grows.
• The Cecropia tree is a fast grower in the rain forest. ... The cecropia can grow 6 feet each year. The cecropia tree can grow in the understory and canopy. The cecropia tree can live in the understory and canopy to 30 to 80 years. When the rain forest gets cut down the cecropia tree fills in the spaces and provides shade for the forest floor for young roots and baby trees. The Cecropia tree has ants called aztec ants. Some of the cecropia trees grow in so high altitudes where aztec ants don't live and the cecropia tree can't live as long. The cecropia trees either grows in sunny places or where it floods. The Cecropia tree can grow over 1,000,000 seeds. ... When the cecropia tree dies other trees take its place. ... Cecropia trees really like the sunlight and they like high tempertures and are able to take advantage of the sunlight.
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• What the Cecropia Tree Looks Like.
• The cecropia is a very large tree in the rain forest. The cecropia tree is an umbrella shaped tree with a hollow trunk. ... The cecropia has very large silvery green, hand shaped leaves. ... The cecropia tree can only live up to about 80 years before dying. The cecropia can grow 6 feet each year. ... A single cecropia can have 1,000,000 seeds that birds and bats spread for new trees.
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• Hyalophora cecropia, wing.
• Return to Dominick Home Page Detail of forewing of the wild silk moth Hyalophora cecropia. ...

• Cecropia Moth Caterpillar - Nikon N90s, 100mm/f4 macro, Fuji Sensia .

• Cecropia.
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• With a wingspan of 5 to 6 inches, the cecropia moth (Hyalophora cecropia) is the largest North American moth. ... Cecropia moths are often referred to as silkworm moths. ...
• However, because a cecropia moth is colorful as well as large, when you do see one for the first time, you won't forget it! Like most moths, they are attracted to bright lights. ...
• Cecropia moths do not live long (about two weeks) because the adult cecropia cannot eat. ...
• In northern climates the cecropia moths emerge from their cocoons as soon as the weather warms up enough in late May or early June. ...
• A female cecropia can lay more than one hundred eggs. ...
• Cecropia larva have many enemies. ...
• The cecropia caterpillar's colors change from its original black coloration to a green-orange color as it goes thorugh its larval stages. ...
• Cecropia Moth Caterpillar Photo Credit - University of Kentucky Entomology Dept. ...
• The cecropia caterpillars feed mainly on cherry, plum, apple, elderberry, box elder, maple, birch and willow, but will also feed on linden, elm, sassafras and lilac. ...
• Cecropia Moth Caterpillar.
• A cecropia caterpillar's skin doesn't grow. ...
• The winters where cecropia moths live can be very cold. ...
• Hyalophora cecropia, North America's largest silkmoth with a wingspan approaching six inches, flies in all Canadian provinces except British Columbia and Newfoundland. ... , there are some highly localized populations reported in Washington and Utah, but generally the cecropia moth lives from the Rocky Mountains and east. Like all Hyalophora species, the cecropia moth is univoltine,which means there is only one brood each year. ...

• Topes / Our guide, Alex, with a cecropia leaf.

• The Cecropia-Azteca association in Costa Rica .
• Cecropia .
• Cecropia species of Costa Rica .
• Cecropia peltata .
• Cecropia obtusifolia .
• Cecropia insignis .
• Cecropia polyphlebia .
• Obligate Cecropia ants of Costa Rica .
• The most conspicuous ant-plant association in the wet neotropics is that of Azteca ants and Cecropia trees. In most low-elevation, wet regions of the neotropics, Cecropia trees are ubiquitous and important invaders of man-made clearings (Uhl et al. ...
• Cecropia.
• The genus Cecropia is a highly distinctive lineage of dioecious trees, placed variously in the Cecropiaceae, Moraceae, or Urticaceae (Burger 1977, Berg 1978, Judd et al. ...
• In most of the more than 100 Cecropia species there is a suite of characters which relate to ant association (Mueller 1876, 1880-1881, Eidmann 1945). ... Most ant inhabitants of Cecropia harvest muellerian bodies as their primary food source. ...
• The dominant ants associated with Cecropia are several species of Azteca (Longino 1989b, 1991b and included references). ... Those inhabiting Cecropia represent at least two and perhaps as many as four independent evolutionary colonizations of Cecropia (Longino 1991b, Ayala et al. ... Other obligate inhabitants of Cecropia include several species of Pachycondyla (Ponerinae). Although never as abundant as the dominant Azteca specialists, they are widespread in the Neotropics, and almost certainly represent multiple independent colonizations of Cecropia from within the genus Pachycondyla (pers. ...

• Cecropia peltata L. ...
• Yagrumo hembra (Cecropia peltata), also called trumpet-tree, is a rapidly growing neotropical tree, an important secondary species that is common in Puerto Rico. ...
• Approximately 80 species of the genus Cecropia have been described; however, only one species is found on the islands of the Caribbean. ... Velazquez (27) consolidated three Venezuelan Cecropia species into a variety of C. peltata: Cecropia peltata L. ...
• Recently, Howard (14) describes Puerto Rican species as Cecropia schreberiana rather than C. ... Some place it in its own family, cecropiaceae, with the genus Cecropia as the type genus.
• Seasonal differences in internodal lengths in Cecropia trees: a suggested method for measurement of past growth in height. ...
• Favorite foods of neotropical birds: flying termites and Cecropia catkins. ...
• Observations on Cecropia reproduction in Costa Rica. ...
• Dissolution of mutualism between Cecropia and its Azteca ants. ...
• Neutral sulfite semichemical pulping of guaba (Inga vera), yagrumo hembra (Cecropia peltata) and eucalyptus (Eucalyptus robusta) from Puerto Rico. ...
• Observations of birds at Cecropia trees in Puerto Rico. ...
• Cecropia peltata. ...
• Progressive loss of ant related traits of Cecropia peltata on selected Caribbean islands. ...
• A study of the ecological life history of Cecropia peltata L. ...

• Cecropia Moth.
• Scientific Name: Hyalophora cecropia.

• CECROPIA MOTH .
• The cecropia moth, Hyalophora cecropia, is the largest of the giant silkworm moths native to Ontario, having a wing spread of 10 to 15. ...
• The cecropia larva (caterpillar) reaches a length of 10 cm. ...
• If you are interested in watching the development of the cecropia moth, place a caterpillar in a box or cage in August. ...

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