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Boneset Flower Moth - Hodges#11148.1 (Schinia grandimedia)
Photo#31491
Copyright © 2005
Tom Bentley
Mystery Caterpillar -
Schinia grandimedia
Bluff spring Fen Nature preserve, Cook County, Illinois, USA
September 10, 2005
Caterpillar feeding on False Boneset.
Contributed by
Tom Bentley
on 13 September, 2005 - 10:05pm
Last updated 18 October, 2012 - 11:11pm
Moved
Moved from
Purple-Lined Sallow
.
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john and jane balaban
, 18 October, 2012 - 11:11pm
Doug, do you have
Schinia grandimedia at Bluff Spring Fen. It has been pointed out that this looks just like the image on page 359 of the new Owlet caterpillar book.
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john and jane balaban
, 5 October, 2012 - 2:27pm
Total Guess
It looks somewhat like a Euchloe species. See comparison shot
here
.
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Lynette Elliott
, 14 September, 2005 - 6:36am
Food plant may be wrong
False Boneset is in the Asteraceae (Sunflower Family), but the link you gave gives food plants all in the Brassicaceae(Mustard Family). While some Brassicaceae specialists will feed on a wide variety of plants (Pieris rapae, the Cabbage White, is the best example), many don't.
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Chuck Entz
, 14 September, 2005 - 8:03am
Not Euchloe
It's not Euchloe. The butterfly fauna at Bluff Spring Fen is well know.
Euchloe olympia
, the only possibility in the genus, has never been recorded from Bluff Spring Fen, nor has
Arabis lyrata
, the local host. I'm pretty sure that it's moth rather than a butterfly. Not very specific, I'm afraid.
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Doug Taron
, 10 October, 2005 - 6:38am
If not one of the Whites
maybe it could be one of the Sallows - Pyrrhia, Wagner page 398
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john and jane balaban
, 5 December, 2005 - 6:17pm
This is a Pyrrhia exprimens
This is a Pyrrhia exprimens
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Tom Bentley
, 24 July, 2006 - 6:24pm
Could be
This article
describes it as "broadly polyphagous". Beyond that, I'm not qualified to say anything more.
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Chuck Entz
, 24 July, 2006 - 6:53pm