### animal | larva | caterpillar:

Silkworm
* are a favorite food for chameleons and one of the best staple food items
  - an ideal food source for chameleons of all sizes, and it is also very nutritious
  - insects
  - the larvae or caterpillars of silk moths
  - totally reliant on humans and thus a very labor-intensive prospect
  - very hungry
* eat mulberry leaves.
* feed on mulberry leaves and weave cocoons.
* produce silk when they secrete a fine, strong filament while spinning their cocoons.
* shed their skins several times while growing.
* suffer agonizing deaths to feed the market for silk ties, silk underwear, and silk sheets.
* survive exclusively on certain strains of mulberry leaves.
  * eat mulberry leaves. They are native to northern China.
+ Silkworm, Growth: Moths
  * Silkworms are very hungry. They eat mulberry leaves day and night. Silkworm eggs take about ten days to hatch. When the colour of their heads turns darker, it means that it is time for them to shed their skins. After they shed four times, their bodies turn slightly yellow and their skin becomes tighter, which means they are going to become a pupa. While they are a pupa, they turn into moths.

Stinging caterpillar
* All stinging caterpillars are foliage-feeding insects.
* Most stinging caterpillars belong to the insect family known as flannel moths.
* are the immature stages of several species of moths.

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Tent caterpillar
* Some tent caterpillars destroy trees
  - do damage
* are active in southeastern North Dakota and western Minnesota
  - also subject to a virus disease called wilt
  - animals
  - densely hairy and often brightly colored
  - hairy black worms
  - more of a nuisance than actually detrimental to overall tree health and vigor
  - pests
  - primarily a nuisance
  - widely polyphagous eating many forest shrubs and trees
* can cause considerable defoliation
  - completely defoliate shrubs
  - defoliate the entire tree
* contain oxalic acid and have irritating hairs.
* eat the leaves of fruit trees, birch and many other trees.
* feed on young leaves in the spring.
* have one generation per year.
* infest cherry trees
* live in a large, silken tents in the crotches of trees
  - groups within a silken tent
* make large webbed nests in trees then eat the foliage
  - nests to live in but leave the nests to feed
  - silken tents to live in while they feed on their host trees
  - their webs at tree crotches and are spring pests
* produce only one generation per year.
* spend the winter as egg masses on branches.

Velvetbean caterpillar
* cause damage by consuming foliage.
* is an annual pest on Georgia soybeans.

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Webworm
* are caterpillars
  - dark green caterpillars with two white stripes and black spots on their backs
  - in spider-web type bundles and are usually worse on pecans
  - very active
* damage the leaves of ash by both feeding and web building
  - chestnut by both feeding and web building
  - pear by both feeding and web-building
* employ their silk to tie together their host's reproductive parts.
* feeding on the outer leaves of older plants are harmless.
* pass through one or more generations per year depending on the species.
* therefore has only one generation per year.