cecropia in English
noun
1
a fast-growing tropical American tree, typically among the first to colonize a cleared area. Many cecropias have a symbiotic relationship with ants.
Carmen made us pause in our conversation to look at the moon, a perfect orange lantern cradled in the arms of a cecropia tree.
2
a very large North American silkworm moth with boldly marked reddish-brown wings. The caterpillars feed on a variety of forest trees.
The cecropia moth , for example, produces a peptide that attacks many kinds of bacteria.
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1. Unlike the cecropia and promethea moths, however, these two do not have built-in escape hatches for the emerging adults.
2. How do I manage invasive Buckthorns? Explore landscape alternatives like the spicebush (pictured below and to the right in bloom), and enjoy the spicebush butterflies and cecropia moths you’ll attract
3. Definition of canebrake : a thicket of cane Examples of canebrake in a Sentence Recent Examples on the Web The forest hid behind pioneer vegetation, the same Canebrakes and cecropia trees over and over.