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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Scolecocampinae » Scolecocampa » Dead-wood Borer Moth - Hodges#8514 (Scolecocampa liburna)
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Pennsylvania Caterpillar for ID - Scolecocampa liburna
Copyright © 2020 Jim Eckert

Pennsylvania Caterpillar for ID - Scolecocampa liburna
Northkill Road north of Shartlesville, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
May 10, 2020
Size: 38 mm
Found under peeled bark from a long dead large upright deciduous tree. When it dropped I thought it must be a beetle grub but was surprised to find an apparent lepidoptera close to perhaps a Papaipema borer sp. If so I'm not sure why it would be found there and not in or near a herbaceous plant. Submitted for ID help, and advice on how to feed it to maturity.

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Contributed by Jim Eckert on 13 May, 2020 - 12:05am
Last updated 6 March, 2021 - 1:33pm

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