Stock Animal Diet - TV Tropes. This is one of the most prevalent Animal Stereotypes. ![]() ![]() Animal characters, whether Talking Animals or Funny Animals, have a love for a certain kind of food that goes to the point of obsession (they go crazy for it) or exclusivity (they eat nothing else). Sometimes these diets are true. For example, cats really do go nuts for fish. Others are so ridiculously false that it's amazing how they ever got started, but have been presented to us as true so often, that it's weird to think that it can't be true. Could you imagine a mouse not liking cheese? It can kill them. Giant Leopard Moth - The black and white wings of the Giant Leopard Moth hide a body that also sports a punch of bright red. ![]() Whether you're looking to train a new puppy, find the best toy for your cat or set up a tropical aquarium, eHow has answers to all of your pet-related questions. WE HAVE LIVE BUTTERFLIES FOR SALE & FUN BUTTERFLY KITS! We have 2 kinds of butterfly larvae for sale and caterpillars for sale. Order caterpillars today! Giant Swallowtail Butterfly - The huge Giant Swallowtail is a large North American butterfly that never fails to make an impression.Occasionally constitutes Artistic License . Truth in Television for the most part. ![]() Click here for more animal facts Click here for snow leopard facts. Scientific name for a leopard is Panthera Pardus. Leopards are in the cat family. When you see a 15-piece orchestra full of trumpets, violins, and cellos, you’re probably expecting to hear a little Chopin, or Mozart. But the Rundfunk. In real life, anteaters and aardvarks prefer to prey on termites, though of course they won't turn down the opportunity to raid an anthill should they come across one (the issue is more opportunity than preference—termites tend to be easier to get at than the ants where these animals live—and frankly, there isn't much difference between ants and termites if you're eating them). This even extends to their typing. Heatmor is a Fire- type, to which Durant's Bug/Steel dual typing has a 4x weakness. Rarely a bat will be depicted as preferring small fruits or insects, with those being more common in Real Life. The sole exception is if you're watching a children's educational series, in which case you can likely expect real facts an An Aesop about bats being important to nature - The Magic School Bus, Bear in the Big Blue House and Blue's Clues have all done this. This one is actually true. Bears go mad over honey and will raid hives when they find them. The crunchy bee larvae are a protein- packed bonus. In fact, some languages' word for . Bears go absolutely gaga over any sweet food; it's genetic. Condensed milk is a perennial favorite of polar bears, who hardly ever have anything sweet in their normal diet. Aside from honey, fish, berries, and contents of pick- a- nic baskets are the only things bears will eat in fiction. Bears are omnivores, after all, and campers in bear territory have to store their food where hungry and curious ursines can't get at them (usually, this means a tree branch high and strong enough to carry the pack, but inaccessible to even the most determined bear). Really, bears are remarkably humanlike, what with the omnivory, relative intelligence, somewhat similar walking, and even occasional bipedalism; it's no wonder people are so fascinated by them. That includes ice cream, as Ed Sullivan found out when he was holding an ice cream cone for a dancing bear doing his act on The Ed Sullivan Show. When it started melting, Sullivan took a lick and the bear saw that, roared in outrage and charged him for mooching on his ice cream. Pooh loves honey, Piglet loves . Tigger, who claimed to eat anything, decided he didn't like any of these foods. Tigger eventually ended up living with Kanga and Roo because his favorite food turned out to be Roo's strengthening medicine - malt extract. BTW, Kanga couldn't help her maternal instincts, so she started having Tigger eat some of Roo's breakfast as HIS strengthening medicine.. No bears appear, but the hero's name means . The sequel also has berries, which is another thing that bears eat. Unfortunately, this becomes one of the first instances of her mother succumbing to the bear's instincts. In the previous scene, Merida wakes up to find that Elinor has gathered a meal of berries - though this probably isn't too linked to her bear instincts, as Merida has to inform her the berries are poisonous. I suck the heads off fish! When the airplane crew member walks into the 9th class section where Kermit, Fozzie and Gonzo arenote Their boss Mr. Tarkanian didn't like them so he got them the cheapest area of the plane he could, Fozzie says, . In the first episode of The Muppets, when Fozzie has dinner with his human girlfriend and her parents, he complements the salmon, and the father sarcastically comments . But it backfires, as the crow does not like honey. Namely honey- flavored wasabi candies given to them by Chloe. Deconstructed in . Grizzly loves his new diet at first, but when he realizes that he must stick to the new diet without eating human foods during the requested time he starts losing his cool. This is sort of true, as beavers will eat the leaves, small twigs, and inner bark but not the entire log itself other than wearing it down. In one episode, Norbert's refusal to chew on wood because his long teeth made him popular with the other animals caused his teeth to grow out of control and trap him (along with his brother Daggett, who also stopped chewing out of jealousy) in a cage made of their elongated front teeth. He prefers to eat fish. This has both put him into and helped him out of jams, such as the episode where he accidentally ate Pinch's dollhouse, but later rebuilt it. Pollen is rarer and usually treated more as an item for pollination than actual food. Royal jelly (consumed exclusively by queen bees) is probably even rarer. For wasps, they like picnic foods (especially if it is sweet- tasting) and other insects (including bees). Both are Truth in Television. Not really truth in television. While beetles will happily eat watermelon, the high water content may give them diarrhea. Apples (that have excess juices squeezed out), bananas, and specially made beetle jelly are a better choice to feed captive beetles. Ladybugs, which are a kind of beetle, will always be shown eating aphids. Kabutomoaki loves watermelon. Common rejoinders are . Coyote often tried to lure the Roadrunner into a trap by tempting it with bird seed. This is somewhat accurate in that roadrunners really do eat seeds some of the time, though going by the cartoon alone, you'd probably never guess that rodents, smaller birds and lizards & snakes were also part of their diet. Acres segments of Garfield and Friends was Booker trying to catch a worm. Little rewards Margalo for saving Stuart's life by making her a tiny cake with seeds sprinkled on top. Feeding it any . Similarly, in the games, the Pok. Cats, ambush predators who went after pretty much any animal smaller than them, were originally bred to hunt mice. Of course, with fictional cats, actually catching mice or birds is very rare. They can have better luck with fish though, at least sometimes; for many pet owners, tuna fish is like cocaine to their cats. Unfortunate too, as due to the mercury content, it's not good for them in large amounts. Milk is also a popular treat for fictional cats, despite the fact that many cats can end up being lactose intolerant in real life. One just does not want to be a bystander when it hits the other end. In the dairy vein, cats generally love cheese, especially ones that have been aged a bit (as those have more of the lactose fermented away). Despite media sensationalism of cats eating dead owners, this behavior is actually much more common amongst dogs than it is cats. Cats are very picky about eating already dead meat (ever wonder why your cat would prefer to catch a mangy bird off your balcony than eat the expensive food you buy for him? This is why) and so generally only eat carrion as a last resort, but dogs are scavengers who will eat just about anything they can find, carrion or no. There are reports of dogs eating toes or sometimes even testicles off of their apparently- dead owners, when the owners are still alive. I'd rather die than starve to death! Davis' pet cat on Our Miss Brooks, shows an affinity to several stock cat foods. One episode has Miss Brooks telling Minerva there's no cream left, so she'll have to take milk. Minerva meows angrily in protest. Conklin intends to enter in a fishing contest. Zigzagged with Thunder. Clan, who eat squirrels, rabbits, voles, and mice, but think fish are gross. River. Clan, Wind. Clan, Sky. Clan and the Tribe of Rushing Water play it more straight, eating fish, rabbits, birds, and eagles, respectively. Shadow. Clan mostly averts it, eating lizards, frogs, snakes and rats (although that last one caused trouble for them when some cat dropped a contaminated rat on the fresh- kill pile and made the entire Clan sick). Cat loved fish so much he once worked in the fire department simply because they had fish chili at the time. He once had to cover his eyes while Arlene caught a mouse and ate it. Birds and fish are not as lucky however, since he will gladly eat those (and not just cooked ones either, living ones too). He also likes to eat Jon's houseplants sometimes. Of course, his all- time favourite food is lasagna. Sometimes he talks with whatever he is about to eat. And in line with the . Almost as often, Jerry tries to steal it from him. Oggy from Oggy and the Cockroaches, despite eating tons of food cats shouldn't be eating, is a big fan of milk (he often heats it on the stove) and fish. He's actually too afraid of mice to even attempt to eat them. Most of them prefer fish over other foods, especially Happy. Carla, however, defies this trope by spurning Happy's attempts to woo her with gifts of fish most of the time, and Pantherlily averts the trope by displaying a strong liking for kiwi fruit and its juice. She also gets a saucer of milk every day at teatime. The villain gives the rooster corn- flavored bubblegum to prevent the morning's wake- up call. The gum is of the overly- sticky variety and prevents the rooster from crowing properly. The cartoon ends with the hen and her chicks enjoying a Food Porn feast of corn muffins, bread, soup, and butter- slathered corn on the cob, while Donald and the pig get only a bottle of castor oil to . Truth in Television for crocodiles, which cause more human fatalities than any other predator and actually view humans as a food source; in fact, they will take on any sort of prey. On the other hand, when on land, alligators are more likely to run away from a human thanks to their low- set eyes (all they see are the feet of some giant, who may be a danger to them). In the water, though, you're on their turf. Gypsy Moth Biology & Life Cycle. Gypsy moth undergoes four developmental life stages; these are the egg, larva (caterpillar), pupa, and adult. Gypsy moth females lay between 5. The eggs are covered with a dense mass of tan or buff- colored hairs. The egg mass is approximately 1. The eggs are the overwintering stage of the insect. Eggs are attached to trees, houses, or any outdoor objects. The eggs hatch in spring (April) into caterpillars. Caterpillar (Larval Stage)Gypsy moth caterpillars are easy to identify, because they possess characteristics not found on other leaf- feeding caterpillars. They have five pairs of blue dots followed by six pairs of red dots lining the back. In addition, they are dark- colored and covered with hairs. Young caterpillars primarily feed during the day whereas the older caterpillars feed at night. When present in large numbers, the older caterpillars feed day and night. Young caterpillars spread to new locations by crawling to the tops of trees, where they spin a silken thread and are caught on wind currents. Older caterpillars are approximately 1. Gypsy moth caterpillars do not produce a web, which distinguishes it from web- making caterpillars such as the Eastern tent caterpillar, Malacosoma americanum and the fall webworm, Hyphantria cunea. The Gypsy moth larval stage lasts approximately seven weeks. Male Moth. Female Moth. In early summer (June to early July), Gypsy moth caterpillars enter a pupal or transitional stage. The pupae are dark brown, shell- like cases approximately two inches long and covered with hairs. They are primarily located in sheltered areas such as tree bark crevices or leaf litter. Adult Gypsy moths emerge from the pupae in 1. They are present from July into August. Females have white to cream- colored wings, a tan body, and a two- inch wingspan. Female Gypsy moths cannot fly. Males, which are smaller than females, with a 1. Both the adult female and male can be identified by the inverted V- shape that points to a dot on the wings. Gypsy moth has only one generation per year. Gypsy moth populations will go through cycles in which the populations will increase for several years then decline, and then increase again. Area- wide outbreaks can occur for up to ten years, but generally population densities in localized areas remain high for two to three years. Adapted from Entomology Fact Sheet, NHE- 1. Raymond A. Cloyd and Philip L. Nixon, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, in cooperation with the Illinois Natural History Survey. This site is for use by municipal forestry departments, park districts, the green industry and other concerned agencies to report gypsy moth findings in Northeastern. Illinois. The site will be monitored by University of Illinois Extension staff and the Illinois Department of Agriculture to assist in the effort to suppress the spread of gypsy moth.
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