Fully grown moths of this personal don't feed. It normally keep around muted colours (browns & greys), although a select few come white, & tend to become super hirsute. A larvae come too hirsute & within several coinage a hairs break off super easy & are highly irritating to the skin. This extremely efficacious defence serves a moth throughout its life span when a hairs come incorporated into a cocoon, from in which it is collected & stored per emerging adult female at a tip of a stomach & utilized to camouflage & protect the eggs as they are placed. In a larvae of a bit of metal money, hairs come take in heavy tufts along a back & this gives the babies the most common title of tuft.

Species

Coinage include:

Brown-tail (Euproctis chrysorrhoea) Yellow-tail (Euproctis similis) Gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar) Nun Moth (Lymantria monacha) Eloria noyesi Painted Apple Moth (Teia anartoides)