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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Geometrid and Swallowtail Moths (Geometroidea) » Geometrid Moths (Geometridae) » Ennominae » Boarmiini » Ectropis » Small Engrailed - Hodges#6597 (Ectropis crepuscularia)
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Geometridae, Small Engrailed, dorsal - Ectropis crepuscularia - female
Copyright © 2018 MJ Hatfield

Geometridae, Small Engrailed, dorsal - Ectropis crepuscularia - Female
100 Acre Wood, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
July 16, 2018
July 16, 2018: found this larva in the rearing container of these Woolly Bears

Must have come in with the Elm leaves, food for the Woolly Bears, which this larva continued to eat.
July 22, 2018: already a pupa! (14 mm)
August 7, 2018: after being away for several days, returned to a beat up live moth, set free. Looking through the milled peat substrate, found beautiful aquamarine eggs (can't be fertile)

Moth ID by J. Durbin

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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 4 December, 2018 - 12:57pm

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