Males are orange or yellow with black spots while the females are dark brown with orange or yellow spots. The caterpillars are greenish pink with a black head. Eggs are laid on and around the host plant singly. There are multiple flights all year in southern Florida...
About an inch long, this leaf-feeding pest is a long-haired, pale green or yellow caterpillar with a black stripe down its back. It feeds from inside the silken, web-like nests it builds at branch tips.
This 1 inch long, grayish pink caterpillar has a dark head and two rows of dark spots along its body. Found everywhere except Florida and the Far West, it’s most troublesome in the Midwest.
Both adults and larvae feed on leaf undersides, but the larvae-1/2 inch long, dull yellow grubs with black stripes-cause more damage. The 1/4 inch long adults are yellowish green, with a black stripe on each wing cover.
Contrary to the old wives’ tale, these nocturnal, 3/4 inch long, reddish brown insects don’t crawl into human ears and bore into the brain with their mean looking pincers. Earwigs do nibble on plants though-but they usually do more good than harm, since...
