Caterpillars in Your Yard and Garden
Crinkled flannel moth
Puss caterpillars
Crinkled flannel moths caterpillars (Lagoa crispata) are present in summer and fall. They produce two generations per year.
Crinkled flannel moth caterpillars are covered with tufts of long, dense hairs, ranging in color from gray, orange and tan. The light-colored hairs form a crest along the top of the body. Underneath the coat of silky hairs are small tubercles containing urticating hairs that can cause severe irritation when handled improperly. Host plants include a variety of trees and shrubs, such as oak and sassafras.
About the family
Puss caterpillars belong to the Megalopygidae family.
Contents
- Life cycle and key morphological features
- Achemon sphinx
- Armyworm
- Bagworm
- Banded woollybear
- Black cutworm
- Cabbage looper
- Catalpa sphinx
- Cecropia moth
- Clearwinged sphinx
- Crinkled flannel moth
- Dusty birch sawfly
- Eastern tent caterpillar
- Eight-spotted forester
- Elm sawfly
- European pine sawfly
- Fall webworm
- Garden webworm
- Gray furcula
- Green cloverworm
- Greenstriped mapleworm
- Hackberry emperor
- Hag moth
- Hickory horned devil
- Imperial moth
- Imported cabbageworm
- Io moth
- Linden looper
- Monarch caterpillar
- Monarch butterfly
- Orangedog
- Pale tussock moth
- Parsleyworm
- Pickleworm
- Polyphemus moth
- Poplar tentmaker
- Red-spotted purple caterpillars
- Roseslug
- Silverspotted skipper
- Smalleyed sphinx
- Spicebush swallowtail
- Spiny oak slug
- Stalk borer
- Stinging rose caterpillar
- Tiger swallowtail
- Tobacco hornworm and tomato hornworm
- Tomato fruitworm and corn earworm
- Unicorn caterpillar
- Variegated cutworm
- Variegated fritillary
- Viceroy
- Walnut caterpillar
- Whitelined sphinx
- Whitemarked tussock moth
- Yellow woollybear
- Yellownecked caterpillar
- Zebra swallowtail
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