Abstract
EENY-383, a 5-page fact sheet by F. W. Howard, Sergio Gallo and Bryan Steinberg,
is included in the Featured Creatures series. It describes this strikingly colored caterpillar pest of West Indies mahogany, its distribution, description, biology, host plants, damage and economic importance, management, and selected references. Published by the UF Department of Entomology and Nematology, July 2006.
References
Howard FW, Solis MA 1989. The distribution, life history and host plant relationships of mahogany webworm. Florida Entomologist 72: 469-477. https://doi.org/10.2307/3495185
Howard FW 1990. Population suppression of mahogany webworm, Macalla thyrsisalis (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), with natural products. Florida Entomologist 73: 225-229. https://doi.org/10.2307/3494804