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Platynota rostrana

Platynota rostrana
Karnack, Harrison County, Texas, USA
September 18, 2014
Size: 13mm
Penultimate instar found feeding on Eastern Baccharis (Baccharis halimifolia).

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Platynota rostrana Platynota rostrana Platynota rostrana - female

Photo Autority Request
Dear

My name is Jordan E. Corrales Castillo, currently I working in some projects in my University in Costa Rica about agriculture and improvement crops. I am writing you because I would like apply for your authority to incorporate the following picture, published by you in the webpage bugs guide.

We consider very usefull this image to be incorporated into a little pictorical insect guide that we are developing to beans farmers in our country. It is important inform you that, this guide is for illustrative purposes and non profit, in fact we want to give it and not sale. Our purpose with this pictoric guide is collaborate to beans producers to get learn and recognize more about the pests affecting their plantations and how they can use best environmental controls. With your permission, respective credits and authority will be added in this pictorical guide.

Sincerely
Jordan E. Corrales Castillo
Entomology Department
Agricultural Sciences School
Universidad Nacional, Heredia Costa Rica

My compliments!
I would never have found mine if it hadn't been for the tell-tale folded leaf.

Interesting
I raised what I think to have turned out to be a Platynota rostrana as shown here and here, but my caterpillar fed only at night, as far as I could tell, moving several inches from its home in a folded leaf to a healthy leaf (I judged its well-being by the droppings in the morning). Wanting to check the caterpillar's well-being after the folded leaf had wilted, I quickly stopped my intrusion when it tried to eject itself at the other end of the fold. You write that you "found" yours - was feeding at daytime?

 
Night Owl
As such pretty much all of the ones I rear are found at night.

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