Best Erebidae

The Black witch moth is a massive, nocturnal species found in the Americas, recognized as the largest moth north of Mexico with a wingspan up to seven inches.

The giant leopard moth is a North American tiger moth distinguished by its striking white wings marked with black, hollow rings, and its caterpillar's habit of overwintering as larvae.

The Cinnabar moth is a brightly colored European species, widely introduced to countries like New Zealand specifically to control invasive ragwort weeds.

The Bella moth is a colorful species native to the southeastern United States, notable for sequestering toxic alkaloids from host plants to deter predators and attract mates.

The Garden tiger moth is a large, striking insect found across Europe and North America, recognized by its cream forewings and orange hindwings with dark spots.

The Jersey Tiger Moth is a striking European insect noted for its black and white forewings and red hindwings, recognized for its expanding populations across the United Kingdom.

The Scarlet Tiger Moth is a colorful diurnal insect native to Europe, notable for its striking black, red, and white patterned wings that serve as a warning to predators.

The Jersey tiger is a strikingly colored moth found across Europe and Asia Minor, noted for its contrasting black and white striped forewings and red hindwings.

The Scarlet tiger is a brightly patterned European moth that flies during the daytime, recognized by its dark, iridescent forewings and vivid red hindwings.

The Clymene moth is a North American species noted for its striking, cross-like black pattern on its cream-colored wings, and it flies actively during both day and night.

The painted lichen moth is a small, brightly colored North American species whose striking orange and gray striped larvae exclusively feed on parmelia lichens found on tree trunks.

The scarlet-winged lichen moth is a North American arctiid recognized by its bright red hindwings, and its larvae feed extensively on lichens growing on the bark of various trees.

The Virginian tiger moth is a widespread North American species recognized by its pure white, fuzzy appearance, and its fuzzy, yellowish larvae are commonly known as yellow bears.

The agreeable tiger moth is a North American moth characterized by its entirely white, translucent wings and lack of prominent wing markings, commonly found in eastern deciduous forests.

The pink-legged tiger moth is a North American arctiid species distinguished by its stark white wings and characteristic bright pink legs, which serve to warn predators of its toxicity.

The banded tussock moth is a North American moth recognized by its gray and yellow patterns, whose fuzzy, distinctly tufted larvae feed on a wide variety of deciduous trees.

The Pale tussock moth is a notable European forest species recognized by its pale, furry body and the bright yellow or pink coloration of its hairy, hump-backed larvae.

The Hickory tussock moth is a North American species notable for its fuzzy, black-and-white caterpillars, which possess venomous spines that cause contact dermatitis.

The Vapourer moth is a widespread Eurasian species notable for its extreme sexual dimorphism, where flightless females emit pheromones to attract distinctively winged males.

The White-marked tussock moth is a North American species whose striking, tufted caterpillars are known to cause widespread defoliation of shade and forest trees.

The Old lady moth is a European noctuid species notable for its dark, contrasting wing patterns that resemble Victorian mourning attire and its riverside habitats.

The Neighbor moth is a North American species recognized by its bright white forewings bordered by a distinct yellow margin, and its larvae primarily feed on broadleaf plants.

The Saltmarsh caterpillar moth is a widespread North American arctiid recognized by its very hairy, highly variable larvae, which are significant agricultural pests.

The Fall webworm moth is a North American species whose striking, creamy white larvae construct large, conspicuous silken webs over the branches of host trees.

The Douglas-fir tussock moth is a North American defoliator whose larvae can cause severe, cyclical outbreaks that extensively damage Douglas-fir and true fir forests in the western US.

First described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1798, the green cloverworm moth is a North American species whose larvae are known to defoliate soybean crops.

The velvetbean caterpillar moth (Anticarsia gemmatalis) is a destructive agricultural pest native to the Americas, where its larvae heavily defoliate soybean crops.

The Spongy moth is a destructive Eurasian species accidentally introduced to North America in 1869, known for severely defoliating hardwood forests.

The Brown-tail moth is a European species introduced to North America in the 1890s, notorious for its toxic, urticating caterpillars that cause severe human skin rashes.