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Lepidoptera: Quick Facts

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Also Known As Lepidoptera

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Longwing
A banded woolly bear caterpillar (Pyrrharctia isabella) with fuzzy black and orange bands crawls on a textured wooden surface.
Comet moth (Argema mittrei) with bright yellow wings marked by eye spots and long trailing tails, resting on a tree branch.
Silkworms
Hungry, hungry caterpillar
life cycle of the monarch butterfly
Close-up of a Polyphemus moth's fuzzy abdomen as it deposits small, round eggs in clusters on a dark tree branch.
Rusty Tussock Moth caterpillar (Orgyia antiquua) with long hairs and colorful tufts crawls along a green pine branch.
Silkworm cocoon
A butterfly hangs from its chrysalis as it emerges, with several brown chrysalises lined up on a wooden beam in a butterfly house at the Natural History Museum in London.
Vintage illustrations of colorful moths.
Monarch butterfly perched on a plant with purple flowers.
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John Henry Comstock
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