Males use well-developed, light coloured, quadripectinate antennae to locate the calling females. Ova are deposited in large clusters on host plants. Gregarious larvae feed in large groups which become progressively smaller as caterpillars develop. Leroy Simon Photo Larvae leave the host plant to spin tightly woven cocoons in any kind of crevice they can find. Other Agapema species tend to weave cocoons on hostplants.
Silk is at first light in colour but darkens with age.
Caterpillar found a nice protective crevice on a tree trunk for this cocoon. It is hoped that this alphabetical listing followed by the common name of the foodplant will prove useful. The list is not exhaustive. Experimenting with closely related foodplants is worthwhile. Search WWW Search pei.sympatico.ca Google is one of my favourite Search Engines and seems to offer the most extensive listing of Saturniidae, Sphingidae and butterfly sites.