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Rosy Maple Moths

For reading I have been learning about Moths and what role they play in their ecosystem. The moth I chose was the Rosy Maple Moth / Dryocampa rubicunda. This moth has four stages just like butterflies. Larvae, Caterpillar, Chrysalis and Moth. Also this moth has an important role in their ecosystem, they are consumers. Consumers are organisms that eat other organisms.

For this task I had to make a presentation on the Rosy Maple Moth, including their life cycle, how the rosy maple moth supports their ecosystem through their life cycle and what is a ecosystem and what do they need to survive.

Here is a link to my presentation, Rosy Maple Moth Presentation

After completing my presentation I partnered up with a kid from school called Lucas, Lucas was making a presentation about spiders and what they do for their ecosystem. We compared our presentation together and found out that a Rosy Maple Moth is a consumer just like a spider.

 

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