Our final National Moth Week spotlight is proof that there's always one more amazing moth to discover.

🌿 It's hard to miss the bright pink and yellow rosy maple moths (Dryocampa rubicunda) when they arrive on the sheets! The smallest of the silk moths, rosy maple moths only have a 2" wingspan. Females mainly lay eggs on maple trees (hence their name) and sometimes also on oaks. Caterpillars, known as greenstriped mapleworms, eat whole leaves on the trees they hatched on, then drop to the ground under that tree and pupate in the soil. Leaving the leaves and planting shrubs and herbaceous plants under maples helps the pupae have soft landings when they leave the tree canopies. #mothweek #RosyMapleMoths #trianglelandconservancy #speciesspotlight