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Gelechiidae, Cream-bordered Dichomeris, leaf edge roll - Dichomeris flavocostella

Gelechiidae, Cream-bordered Dichomeris, leaf edge roll - Dichomeris flavocostella
Red Oak Prairie, Allamakee County, Iowa, USA
May 17, 2015
May 15, 2015: collected a rolled leaf edge on Sky-blue Aster, Aster azureas (also known as Symphyotrichum oolentangiense)
with no immediate access to Sky-blue I collected Blue Wood Aster, Aster cordifolius (also known as Symphyotrichum cordifolium)
May 25, 2015: larva crawling under paper towel, food dried, collected plants
May 30, 2015: pupa sewn into the leaf edge roll
June 16, 2015: adult emerged

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