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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Moths » Noctuoidea » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Amphipyrinae » Amphipyra » Copper Underwing - Hodges#9638 (Amphipyra pyramidoides)
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eating my roses - Amphipyra pyramidoides
Copyright © 2008 Darcie Clements

eating my roses - Amphipyra pyramidoides
Lowell, Kent County, Michigan, USA
June 3, 2008
Size: 1.5-2inch
I can just see this little guys mind at work "grah, Thug eat bud, bud gooooood". Is this a hornworm? Anyone know what kind? I've been watching it grow on my rose bush the last week and I am torn between feeding it to my chickens and taking it in to try and raise it into a hummer moth (assuming it is a hornworm of some kind). This is just one of the critters that has gone nutty on the roses this year.

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eating my roses - Amphipyra pyramidoides eating a rose - Amphipyra pyramidoides
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Contributed by Darcie Clements on 3 June, 2008 - 3:28pm

Nope
This is a copper underwing- Amphipyra pyramidea larvae of the family Noctuidae, not Sphingidae (hornworms).
… Ryan, 3 June, 2008 - 3:34pm login or register to post comments

 
Cool thanks very much. We ha
Cool thanks very much. We have a million of those out here so off to the chickens with Thug. I'd like to have some flowers this year (see related set of posts)

edit: I couldn't do it. Thug was left to live life free and happy on a raspberry bush. I painted the roses with diotematious(sp?) earth and the other catapillars either died or moved on as well.
… Darcie Clements, 3 June, 2008 - 3:45pm login or register to post comments

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