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Camel tooth Spinner ( Ptilodon capucina )
The Camel tooth Spinner ( Ptilodon capucina ) is a butterfly (moth ) from the family of the tooth Spinner ( Notodontidae ).
- 3.1 food of the caterpillars
- 5.1 Notes and references
Features
The moths reach a wingspan of 30 to 45 millimeters. You have to run those yellow-brown to reddish-brown wings two black fine serrations along the leaf veins and binding only slightly indicated, also black vertical lines. They have a conical head of hair on his chest ( just behind the head), which was eponymous for it because it was a camel - hump looks like. In addition, they have one, covered with black hair tooth in the middle of the trailing edge of the wings.
The caterpillars are about 30 mm long. They are either light green and yellow or brownish pink with little yellow and have on each side, a yellow, fitted with red spots longitudinal binding. Her legs are just as the sitting on 11 segment two peg-like hump colored red. You have distributed some fine and black hair on the body.
Synonyms
- Lophopteryx capucina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Occurrence
The animals are widely used in Europe and often and come east to East Asia before. They live in different habitats in which their forage plants grow, such as forest edges, in alleys, parks and gardens.
Way of life
The nocturnal moths fly in two generations a year from late April to early July and from late July to mid-August. On the day they sit well camouflaged on tree trunks.
Food of the caterpillars
The caterpillars feed on a variety of deciduous tree and shrub species such as silver birch (Betula pendula), beech ( Fagus sylvatica), oak (Quercus robur), aspen (Populus tremula ), goat willow (Salix caprea ) common hazel (Corylus avellana ) and black alder ( Alnus glutinosa).
Development
The females lay their pale green eggs in small groups on the underside of the leaf edge their food plants. The resulting hatching caterpillars live sociable, but will, in their development loners. They have a strange -looking defensiveness when they sense danger. They stretch her head far back and her bottom to top, while her chest legs forward. The animals pupate on the ground or just below the soil in a lined with only a few web threads chamber. The second generation winter so that first emerges in the same year.