Citheronia splendens larvae

[Bruce Walsh]

We are having somewhat of an outbreak of Splendid royal moth (Citheronia
splendens) larvae here in SE Arizona.  The larvae are quite something, and
I've just placed a photo (less than two hours old!) on our SE Arizona
mothweb site, see:

http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu/zeeb/butterflies/figs/moth_larvae/Saturnii
dae/C_splendens-l2.jpg



Bruce Walsh
Associate Professor
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Biosciences West
University of Arizona
Tucson,  AZ  85721  USA

email:   jbwalsh at u.arizona.edu
Office:  520 621-1915
Fax (Departmental)  520 621 9190

home page:  http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu

Quantitative Genetics page:  http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu/zbook/book.ht
ml

Arizona Moths page: http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu/zeeb/butterflies/mothl
ist.html

Arizona butterflies page: http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu/zeeb/butterflies
/seazlist.html