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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Twirler Moths and kin (Gelechioidea) » Twirler Moths (Gelechiidae) » Anomologinae » Metzneria » Burdock Seedhead Moth - Hodges#1685 (Metzneria lappella)
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Gelechiidae, Burdock Seedhead Moth larva - Metzneria lappella
Copyright © 2020 MJ Hatfield

Gelechiidae, Burdock Seedhead Moth larva - Metzneria lappella
Craggy Rocks, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
September 2, 2019
Collected several heads of Burdock, opened one to this larva
silking video

perhaps as per:


June 9-18, 2020: 17 moths emerged
June 20, 2020: opened the Burdock seed heads, spent pupae and a couple live larvae, put outdoors

Batch rearing.

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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 10 January, 2020 - 7:54pm
Last updated 31 December, 2020 - 10:53am

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