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Caterpillar - Amphipyra tragopoginis
Copyright © 2005 Marion Cronen

Caterpillar - Amphipyra tragopoginis
Union, Union County, Oregon, USA
June 10, 2005
I am hopeing to get a ID on this lil guy .. this is the second time i have seen this and this guy was bigger about double the size almost 2 inches long ..and have only seen it on this flower .. it is some kind of wild flower that spreads easy and looks something like a yellow daisy ..(but i know it is not).. have only seen it in the morning time ..hopefully someone can tell me what it is .. thanks in advance

Marn
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Contributed by Marion Cronen on 13 June, 2005 - 12:39am
Last updated 2 January, 2006 - 11:09am

Ah! Finally stumbled on something
Just from the scientific name, we think this is your guy! Amphipyra tragopoginis See Tatum
… john and jane balaban, 20 December, 2005 - 12:41pm login or register to post comments

Plant sounds like
a Goatsbeard, Tragopogon. Check here and see what you think. That would make it the wrong food source for Achytonix.
… john and jane balaban, 13 June, 2005 - 10:50am login or register to post comments

My guess is
Achytonix epipaschia. Used my Lepidoptera of the Pacific Northwest FREE book to get a possible match on this one. Also online...see Photo.
… Lynette Schimming, 13 June, 2005 - 7:54am login or register to post comments

 
moved image
to Noctuidae for now.
… Lynette Schimming, 13 July, 2005 - 7:37am login or register to post comments

 
Thank You
thanks ya guys that is the flower and that is the lil guy .. that is all i have seen this guy on was this flower and they love it .. i have him in a jar and he is just chomping away on this stuff .. they flower and the leaves of it ..
Thanks again
… Marion Cronen, 13 June, 2005 - 12:06pm login or register to post comments

 
keep him
Keep him through growth and pupation and metamorphasis and keep taking his picture and you'll provide us with a nice series of images which you can link together as you add them to BugGuide. Then you can let him go to make more little green caterpillars for next year.
… john and jane balaban, 13 June, 2005 - 12:41pm login or register to post comments

 
Oh I will
I planned on keeping him and takieng pics of him thru the stages . i will post them when he is all grown up ..lol.. this is the first time I have kept one . i have another type but someone identifies him as a Sawfly but i dont think it is .. the pic i seen has to much yellow and this lil guy does not look like him .. ill post it in here and see what everyone else thinks he is ..
thanks again for the help
… Marion Cronen, 13 June, 2005 - 1:29pm login or register to post comments

 
Sawflies
Sawfly larva have many more legs than moth larvae do. A picture from the side showing all the sets of prolegs will identify sawflies quickly. But then identification to species is very difficult. If you can identify the larval food plant, that goes a long way in helping the ID. When you take a series of photos, don't just wait till emergence, but take pictures of different larval stages and of the pupa also. The more different stages you photograph, the more we learn!
… john and jane balaban, 13 June, 2005 - 1:51pm login or register to post comments

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