Showing posts with label Atlas moth Attacus atlas Caterpillars Angkor Butterfly Center. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Atlas moth Attacus atlas Caterpillars Angkor Butterfly Center. Show all posts

Friday, May 06, 2011

Caterpillars at the Angkor Butterfly Center

From Laura: The lovely fat white larva is the Atlas moth (Attacus atlas) - a Saturniid moth native to SE Asia. (same family as the silk moth and in terms of wing surface area, the largest moth in the world). It feeds on a wide variety of food plants including citrus species, but we found our local Cambodian Atlas larvae did best feeding on cashew.