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Io moth

Automeris io

Davart il num: The name Io comes from Greek mythology, in which Io was a mortal lover of Zeus.1

Fa mo malBetg tutgarQuai fa mal, ma i na ta fa nagin donn serius.

Rujas ed insects

Pails che piztganMangia: Plantas

Privel per umans: DolurusQuai po far propi mal, ma i n'è bunamain mai grav.

The Io moth is a colourful moth from North America. Its adults are striking, with large eyespots on their wings. Its green caterpillars carry spines that release a very painful venom, so they should be left alone.1

Viva en

Southern Canada and the eastern and central United States, from Manitoba and Ontario down to southern Florida.1

America dal Nord

Pagina iniziala

Caterpillars feed on many trees and shrubs, including oak, maple, willow, mulberry, beech and ash. People are most likely to meet the caterpillars on these plants.1

Lunghezza

6,3 cm fin 8,8 cm (2,5 in fin 3,5 in)1

Sveltezza maximala

circa 0,03 km/h (0,02 mph)

Sin terra, stima approximativa

Tge mangia el?

The caterpillars eat the leaves of many host plants. Adult moths do not eat, as they have vestigial mouthparts.1

Foto da Io moth — Io moth. Foto: Trevor Edmonson. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Co renconuscher el

Males have bright yellow forewings, body and legs, and much bigger feathery antennae than females.1
Females have reddish-brown to purple forewings, body and legs.1
Both sexes have one large black to bluish eyespot with some white in the centre on each hindwing.1
Mature caterpillars are bright green and covered in spines, with two lateral stripes: the upper one bright red and the lower one white.1
Adults have a wingspan of 6.3 to 8.8 cm.1

Forza dal tissi

Pails che piztgan

Pitschens pails u spinas finas sa rumpan en la pel e piztgan.

Tge fa ses tissi?

The spines of the green caterpillars release a very painful venom at the slightest touch. Contact is not life-threatening to humans, but it irritates the skin and causes an acute skin inflammation called erucism.1

Quant privlus è el per umans?

Privel per umans: DolurusQuai po far propi mal, ma i n'è bunamain mai grav.

Contact with the spines is not life-threatening to humans, but it causes painful skin irritation.1

Tge fa el, cura ch'el ha tema?

When sitting head-down or when touched, adults shake and expose their hindwing eyespots. Caterpillars defend themselves with stinging spines.1

Sche ti tutgas ses pails

Tar pails da rujas che piztgan: auza els davent cun in bindel adesiv, lava lura la pel. Na sfruscha betg.
Tar morsas: lava e sfradenta. Tschertga agid medicinal, sche la persuna na sa senta betg bain u sanguinescha facilmain.

Clama adina l'emprim tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911). Quai è in cussegl general d'emprim agid, betg in cussegl medicinal. Basa da l'emprim agid

Resta en segirezza

Na tutga, na piglia e na tizza mai in animal selvadi, gnanc in pitschen, ed era sch'el para da durmir u d'esser mort.
Dà spazi a l'animal. Sche ti scuntras in, resta calm, va plaun enavos e lascha ir el per sia via.
Sche ti tutgas ses pails: resta calm, na ta mova betg, clama tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911) u va spert en in ospital. Ta regorda co ch'el veseva or, ina foto gida.

El n'ha betg quai sin tai. El dovra ses tissi per pigliar nutriment u per sa defender, e sa zuppa bler pli gugent. Dapli davart la segirezza

Nua sin il mund?

Africa Asia Europa America dal Nord America dal Sid Australia ed Oceania

Quant grond è el?

Quant lung è el?

uschè lung sco 3 bluccs da construcziun in suenter l'auterpli plaun ch'ina lindorna da curtin

Quant grond è Io moth cumpareglià cun TAI?

Mo matematica en tes navigatur. Nagut na vegn memorisà u tramess.

Quant svelt è el?

Io moth circa 0,03 km/h (0,02 mph)

Ina lindorna da curtin circa 0,05 km/h (0,03 mph)

Ina tartaruga circa 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

bun da savair

Fatgs

The caterpillars' spines are urticating, meaning they can cause a stinging reaction on contact.1

Adults live only 1 to 2 weeks and do not eat during this stage.1

After emerging from the cocoon, adults inflate their furled wings with fluid pumped from the body, which takes about twenty minutes.1

Females attract males by releasing wind-borne scent chemicals (pheromones) from a gland at the end of the abdomen.1

Many flies and wasps are parasitoids of this moth, laying their eggs in or on it.1

Per experts da tissi

Num scientific: Automeris io
Gruppa: Rujas ed insects
Famiglia: Saturniidae2
Urden: Lepidoptera
Continents: America dal Nord
Poppins: Females lay clusters of more than twenty small white eggs on leaves. The eggs hatch within 8 to 11 days.1
Co ch'i va ad el en la natira: Not evaluated by the IUCN Red List and has no special status on the US Federal List. Populations in the eastern US are declining and becoming more localised.1
Privel per umans: 2 / 5: Dolurus3

Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs

Automeris io (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Automeris io (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
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