At present, there are no organizations or researchers in Taiwan doing long-term monitoring of relationships between the greenhouse effect, changes in rainfall, plant growth and changes in caterpillar populations. Hence there is no hard data to support the idea that the abundance of caterpillars is related to climatic factors.
目前台灣並未有機構或研究者針對溫室效應、雨量變化、植物生長與毛毛蟲族群變動等進行長期監測，因此缺乏真正的數據證實毛毛蟲的盛況與天氣有關。