The Wild Cherry Silk Moth is a day-flying silkmoth of the West, with vivid pink and black hindwings and gray-and-black banded forewings. Like all Hemileuca, larvae bear stinging spines and adults do not feed. The spectacular, conspicuous adults fly in late summer through fall in mountain meadows of western North America.
Habitat
Mountain meadows, chaparral, and open forests of the West
Diet
Larvae: wild cherry, rose, and bitterbrush. Adults: do not feed
How common
Uncommon
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