caterpillar eating rain lily - Cydosia aurivitta

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caterpillar eating rain lily - Cydosia aurivitta

Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
April 4, 2018

compare with cerathosia image on this site: austinbug.com/callforcaterpillars.html ( austinbug.com/extra/cerathosia.jpg )

compare with Cydosia nobilitella on bugguide: https://bugguide.net/node/view/360763/bgimage

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caterpillar eating rain lily - Cydosia aurivitta

Contributed by Star Donovan on 5 April, 2018 - 12:39am
Last updated 5 April, 2018 - 2:52pm

Yes, if this had been photographed in south Florida

we would have been looking at Cydosia also. Do you think we should move yours to Cydosia aurivitta? We will

… john and jane balaban, 5 April, 2018 - 2:35pm

Cydosia

I'll defer to your expertise. I'm not sure whether it's cerathosia or cydosia at this point.

… Star Donovan, 5 April, 2018 - 2:47pm

Moved

Not sure why these look so different from what Valerie posted, but these certainly look like the image in Owlets.

… john and jane balaban, 5 April, 2018 - 9:58am

Cydosia?

It looks kind of like Cydosia nobilitella to me:
https://bugguide.net/node/view/360763/bgimage

… Star Donovan, 5 April, 2018 - 12:15pm

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