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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Ribbed Cocoon-maker and Leaf Blotch Miner Moths (Gracillarioidea) » Ribbed Cocoon-maker Moths (Bucculatricidae) » Bucculatrix
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Case - Bucculatrix
Copyright © 2007 David E. Reed

Case - Bucculatrix
Bailey Island, Cumberland County, Maine, USA
August 3, 2007
Size: 6.5mm white case
Many of these on the backs of American Beech Tree leaves. Some of them (like this one) are opened with the brown case extruding. Others are closed and just show the white case. Any idea what makes these??
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Contributed by David E. Reed on 3 August, 2007 - 4:03pm
Last updated 2 March, 2008 - 12:40pm

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… David E. Reed, 2 March, 2008 - 12:40pm login or register to post comments

micro-moth
Some sort of microlepidoptera--which I know isn't very specific... The other day I saw a photo in a book of a Buccalatrix albertiella (Lyonetidae) cocoon that looked a lot like this, but I suspect there are many with similar cocoons (white and narrow with longitudinal ridges). I have photographs of similar ones, for instance, but they are only 4 mm.
… Charley Eiseman, 19 December, 2007 - 1:54pm login or register to post comments

 
Bucculatrix
See this page (scroll down).
The family (now Bucculatricidae) is called 'ribbed cocoon-maker moths' because of these distinctive cocoons.
… Charley Eiseman, 2 March, 2008 - 12:03pm login or register to post comments

 
Bucculatrix
Very nice. Thank you.
… David E. Reed, 2 March, 2008 - 12:36pm login or register to post comments

 
David--
I just checked out your website, saw the photo of you, and realized I met you a couple summers ago when I was on Bailey Island for a wedding. You showed me a bunch of dragonfly photos and lent me and my mother kayaks. Small world! And nice to see your beautiful photographs again!
… Charley Eiseman, 2 March, 2008 - 1:04pm login or register to post comments

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