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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » False Burnet Moths (Urodoidea) » False Burnet Moths (Urodidae) » Wockia » Wockia asperipunctella - Hodges#2415.1 (Wockia asperipunctella)
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Net structure made from hair or silk with a larva inside - Wockia asperipunctella
Copyright © 2018 S H Mak

Net structure made from hair or silk with a larva inside - Wockia asperipunctella
Richmond Hill, York Region, Ontario, Canada
July 21, 2018
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Contributed by S H Mak on 30 July, 2018 - 2:42pm
Last updated 14 August, 2018 - 11:04pm

Moved
Moved from Butterflies and Moths.

The only one of these I ever found was on the underside of a goldenrod leaf, directly under a quaking aspen tree.
… Charley Eiseman, 14 August, 2018 - 11:04pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Kyhl Austin, 6 August, 2018 - 10:42pm login or register to post comments

Maybe Wockia asperipunctella.
Maybe Wockia asperipunctella. Was it on a willow?
… jim sogaard, 30 July, 2018 - 3:04pm login or register to post comments

 
No. It's on the underside of
No. It's on the underside of a Coltsfoot leaf
… S H Mak, 30 July, 2018 - 3:34pm login or register to post comments

 
Wrong answer! (Just kidding). W
Wrong answer! (Just kidding). Wockia a. seems particular to willows and aspens (in my limited experience). The mesh cocoon still looks more like Wockia than other mesh cocoons (Schreckensteiniidae, for example; there are others I cannot momentarily conjure). Maybe your caterpillar fell from a nearby willow or aspen and pupated off the host plant?
… jim sogaard, 30 July, 2018 - 3:47pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks! Very interesting!
Thanks! Very interesting!
… S H Mak, 30 July, 2018 - 4:01pm login or register to post comments

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