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Caterpillar inside rolled eggplant leaf - Rhectocraspeda periusalis
Copyright © 2008 Jake Paredes

Caterpillar inside rolled eggplant leaf - Rhectocraspeda periusalis
Boca Raton, Palm Beach County, Florida, USA
November 29, 2008
Size: approx 1 inch
I found this specimen on a cut young oriental eggplant leaf which the caterpillar had rolled one side presumably to shelter from the sun.
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Contributed by Jake Paredes on 29 November, 2008 - 10:32am
Last updated 25 October, 2022 - 11:54pm

Moved
Moved from Unidentified microlep immature stages.
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… john and jane balaban, 31 December, 2010 - 11:05am login or register to post comments

Did a search here on eggplant
and found this guy and a moth called an "eggplant leafroller"!! See here. Wish we knew enough to say that's what it is. :(
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