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

Ni ngay ko xàmmee
- 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
Kàttanu daŋar
Kawar walla dag yu ndaw-ndaw dañuy dagg ci der bi te jam.
Lan la daŋar biy sóob di def?
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
Ni mu lore nit ñi?
Musiba ci nit: Dafay mettiMën na metti lool, waaye lu bon du faral di am.Contact with the spines is not life-threatening to humans, but it causes painful skin irritation.1
Lan lay def bu tiitee?
When sitting head-down or when touched, adults shake and expose their hindwing eyespots. Caterpillars defend themselves with stinging spines.1
Su nga laalee kawaram
- Ci kawaru chenille yuy jam: dindi leen ak scotch, ginnaaw gi raxas der bi. Bul ko moos.
- Ci màtt yi: raxas ko te sedal ko. Wutal ndimbal doktoor su yaramu nit ki baaxul walla deret di génn ci yomb.
Saa su nekk, woo jëkk sa nimerob urgence (112, 000, 911). Lii ay ndigal yu yaatu ci ndimbal yu jëkk la, du ndigalu doktoor. Li war a xam ci ndimbal yu jëkk
Sàmmal sa bopp
- Bul laal mukk, bul jàpp, bul sonal ab rab bu àll, doonte bu ndaw la, te doonte dafa mel ni dafa nelaw walla dafa dee.
- May ko bérab. Su nga ko gisee, dalal, dellu ginnaaw ndànk-ndànk te bàyyi ko mu dem yoonam.
- Su nga laalee kawaram: dalal, bul yëngu, woo sa nimerob urgence (112, 000, 911) walla dem lopitaan ci gaaw. Bul fàtte ni mu meloon, ab nataal dina dimbali.
Du la wut. Dafay jëfandikoo daŋaram ngir jàpp lu muy lekk walla ngir aar boppam, te nëbbu moo ko gën a neex. Yeneen ci ni ngay sàmme sa bopp
Ni mu réye?
Ni mu guddoo?
guddu na ni 3 bloku tabax yu ñu toftale
gën a yéex escargot bu tóokërIo moth ni mu réye ci wetu YOW?
Ay waññ rekk ci sa navigateur. Dara du denc te dara du yónnee fenn.
Ni mu gaawe?
Xibaar
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
Ngir boroom xam-xam ci daŋar
- Turu xam-xam
- Automeris io
- Mbooloo
- Chenille ak gunóor
- Njaboot
- Saturniidae2
- Toftal
- Lepidoptera
- Kontinaa yi
- Amerig gu Bëj-gànnaar
- Liir yi
- Females lay clusters of more than twenty small white eggs on leaves. The eggs hatch within 8 to 11 days.1
- Ni mu nekke ci àll bi
- 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
- Musiba ci nit
- 2 / 5: Dafay metti3
Fa xibaar yi jóge
- Automeris io (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Automeris io (iNaturalist): tur ak ni ñu leen séddale.
- Venom Wiki: tolluwaayu musiba bi, réyaay bu yem bi ak xalaatu gaawaay bi, nun ñoo leen defar. Seetal ni nu leen waññe: Ni nuy natte musiba.
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