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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Bird Dropping Moths (Acontiinae)
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Caterpillar, lateral
Copyright © 2015 MJ Hatfield

Caterpillar, lateral
Stone State Park, Woodbury County, Iowa, USA
August 3, 2014
swept in a Loess Hills prairie remnant

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Caterpillar, lateral Caterpillar, dorsal Caterpillar, head
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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 4 February, 2015 - 5:41pm
Last updated 5 February, 2015 - 5:36am

So if it doesn't look like
candefacta or erastrioides or leo, does that mean it might be binocula?
… john and jane balaban, 9 September, 2015 - 11:54am login or register to post comments

 
I wish I knew.
Or rather, I wish somebody knew so they could tell us.
… MJ Hatfield, 9 September, 2015 - 9:30pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Moths.
… MJ Hatfield, 5 February, 2015 - 5:36am login or register to post comments

Two pair of abdominal prolegs -
interesting - something in Acontiinae
We kept staring at Ponometia semiflava, but couldn't quite make it work :(
… john and jane balaban, 4 February, 2015 - 8:10pm login or register to post comments

 
I too was looking
at Bird-dropping moths (Wagner) but couldn't make one fit.
I caught several of these in sweeps but didn't know the host so didn't try to rear any.
… MJ Hatfield, 5 February, 2015 - 5:35am login or register to post comments

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