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Tortricidae, Yellow Birch leaffolder on Ninebark, pupa - Ancylis discigerana

Tortricidae, Yellow Birch leaffolder on Ninebark, pupa - Ancylis discigerana
Armund's Prairie, Allamakee County, Iowa, USA
October 11, 2019
September 7, 2019: collected several leaf folds of Ninebark, Physocarpus opulifolius, on a hill prairie remnant
Some of the folds were precise in that the leaf veins lined up together and parallel on the underside of the leaves.


October 8, 2019: moth emerged


October 11, 2019: 3 moths had emerged which made identification possible
opened a few remaining mines to a larva, this pupa and nothing


Batch rearing but leaf folds were put into individual vials, for the most part

TPE field trip to this hill prairie remnant