Io moth
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

Maziviro ayo
- 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
Simba reuturu
Mvere diki dzinodimbukira muganda dzichibaya.
Uturu hwayo hunoitei?
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
Ine ngozi yakadii kuvanhu?
Ngozi kuvanhu: InorwadzaInogona kurwadza chaizvo, asi kazhinji haisi njodzi huru.Contact with the spines is not life-threatening to humans, but it causes painful skin irritation.1
Inoitei kana yatya?
When sitting head-down or when touched, adults shake and expose their hindwing eyespots. Caterpillars defend themselves with stinging spines.1
Kana ukabata mvere dzayo
- Kune mvere dzemakonye anobaya: dzibvise nekamatepi kanonamira, wozogeza ganda. Usakwesha.
- Kana yakuruma: geza parumwa wotonhodza. Wana rubatsiro rwechiremba kana munhu asinganzwi zvakanaka kana achibuda ropa zviri nyore.
Gara uchitanga wafonera nhamba yechimbichimbi (112, 000, 911). Iri izano rakajairika rerubatsiro rwekutanga, kwete zano rechiremba. Zvakakosha zverubatsiro rwekutanga
Gara wakachengeteka
- Usambobata mhuka yesango, kuedza kuitora kana kuinetsa, kunyange iri diki, uye kunyange ichiita seyakarara kana yakafa.
- Ipa nzvimbo. Kana ukasangana nayo, dzikama, dzokera shure zvishoma nezvishoma uirege iende nenzira yayo.
- Kana ukabata mvere dzayo: dzikama, gara wakanyarara, fonera nhamba yechimbichimbi (112, 000, 911) kana kuti enda kuchipatara nokukurumidza. Rangarira kuti yaitaridzika sei, mufananidzo unobatsira.
Haisi kukutsvaga. Inoshandisa uturu hwayo kubata chikafu kana kuzvidzivirira, uye inotonyanya kuda kuhwanda. Zvimwe pamusoro pekugara wakachengeteka
Yakakura sei?
Yakareba zvakadii?
yakareba sezvidhinha zvematoyi 3 zvakateedzana
inononoka kupfuura hozhwa yemugadheniIo moth yakakura sei kana yaenzaniswa NEWE?
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Inomhanya zvakadii?
Chokwadi
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
Kune nyanzvi dzeuturu
- Zita resainzi
- Automeris io
- Boka
- Makonye nezvipukanana
- Mhuri
- Saturniidae2
- Odha
- Lepidoptera
- Makondinendi
- Amerika yeKuchamhembe
- Vacheche
- Females lay clusters of more than twenty small white eggs on leaves. The eggs hatch within 8 to 11 days.1
- Iri kurarama sei musango
- 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
- Ngozi kuvanhu
- 2 / 5: Inorwadza3
Kwakabva chokwadi
- Automeris io (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Automeris io (iNaturalist): mazita nekurongwa kwemhuka.
- Venom Wiki: danho rengozi, saizi yakajairika nekufungidzira kwekumhanya ndezvedu. Ona kuti tinozviwana sei: Matinoyera ngozi.
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