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Dave Crawford
Caterpillar eating Liatris -
Apantesis
Wild River State Park, Chisago County, Minnesota, USA
August 23, 2017
Eating petals of Liatris aspera
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Contributed by
Dave Crawford
on 19 February, 2018 - 10:39pm
Last updated 1 October, 2018 - 2:56pm
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john and jane balaban
, 1 October, 2018 - 2:56pm
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Kyhl Austin
, 3 March, 2018 - 6:57pm
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Possibly Apantesis arge? but
Possibly Apantesis arge? but hard to tell for sure. Any other angles of view?
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jim sogaard
, 20 February, 2018 - 8:04am
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Another view
Hi Jim! Glad to know you're helping with Bug Guide. I added another view, though I suspect it won't help much. BTW, Marcie O'Connor saw the photo in my Facebook post and thought it might be a Salt Marsh Caterpillar - Estigmene acrea. From the description in Caterpillars of Eastern North America, that could be it, except the setae near the head look shorter, rather than longer, compared to the ones on the middle of the body.
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Dave Crawford
, 20 February, 2018 - 6:45pm
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Hello Dave, Estigmene was on
Hello Dave, Estigmene was on my short list too, and I still don't know either, though based on the strength of the stripes and sparseness of the dorsal setae (though that varies a lot), still favor arge. And I don't know if we can exclude Apantesis doris, either. The native hosts of tiger moths are very poorly documented, so an interesting observation.
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jim sogaard
, 21 February, 2018 - 8:05am
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Jim...
I think your guess is a better one. I'd like to learn more about tiger moth caterpillars. They're easy to rear - I need to do more of that.
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marcie oconnor
, 21 February, 2018 - 3:32pm
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Though I don't seem to find m
Though I don't seem to find many, it's more than a bit frustrating how many larval hosts are still reported as "reared on dandelion and plantain" or something similar. Of course some very sophisticated studies have been done on the larval diets of a few, as reported in Tiger Moths and Woolly Bears 2009, W. E. Conner, editor.
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jim sogaard
, 21 February, 2018 - 4:20pm
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