Adults do not eat anything, they do not need food. Rosy Maple Moths spend their lifetime alone, for the most part. Pink = Universal Love of Oneself and Others It’s a solo and quiet world for a Rosy Maple Moth. They do not use sound as a method of communication because they lack the anatomy and ability to do so. The stiff hair-like or bristle-like structures on their bodies that give them their fuzzy appearance allow the Rosy Maple Moth to understand the direction of the wind and sense environmental effects and details that they can relay to their brain. They have both compound and simple eyes giving them the power to see ultraviolet rays. With sensory receptors in their antennae, legs, and mouth appendages (“palps”), adult Rosy Maple Moths can smell pheromones of the opposite sex and are only used to detect potential mates.
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They die off faster if kept in captivity, so let them be free and visit their beauty in nature from time to time! They live out a long, beautiful 2 to 9 months of life. There is no parental guidance once the babies hatch and males do nothing, but fertilize the eggs. If breeding and cocoon creation occurs over the winter months, the cocoon is burrowed into the soil to await optimal conditions for emergence.
Larvae hatch from cocoons after 2 weeks of gestation, usually from mid-May to mid-July and feed until mid-August. One litter can contain 150 to 200 eggs that are deposited in clusters of about 20. The females are the sex predators in this species as they seek out different males for each litter. Females lay their internally fertilized eggs 24 hours post fertilization on the underside of a leaf (typically on maple trees, like their name suggests). Males and females do not mate for life, they have different partners throughout their mating season, which spans on average from April to September. Adults are thought to mate at night, since they come out in the late afternoon and early evening.
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