Goat moth
brown, partly suffused with grey and marked irregularly with black. Eggs are 1.7 mm long, oval and reddish brown. The caterpillars are up to 10 cm long, pink [...] pink when young, later with yellowish sides and a dark red back with a black head. The pupa is 5-6 cm long, dark brown, with spines on the abdominal segment [...] moths fly at night in June or July and lay eggs on tree trunks in batches of up to 50. After the eggs hatch, the larvae bore into the bark and down to the