Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
 

Register · Log In
Clickable Guide
Interactive image map to choose major taxa Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar
Upcoming Events

National Moth Week was July 19-27, and the Summer 2025 gathering in Louisiana, July 19-27

Photos of insects and people from the 2024 BugGuide gathering in Idaho July 24-27

Moth submissions from National Moth Week 2024

Photos of insects and people from the 2022 BugGuide gathering in New Mexico, July 20-24

Photos of insects and people from the Spring 2021 gathering in Louisiana, April 28-May 2

Photos of insects and people from the 2019 gathering in Louisiana, July 25-27
Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Acronictinae » Dagger Moths (Acronicta) » Large Gray Dagger - Hodges#9202 (Acronicta insita)
Photo#44452
Fingered Dagger larva - Acronicta insita
Copyright © 2006 Janice Stiefel

Fingered Dagger larva - Acronicta insita
Town of Baileys Harbor, Hidden Corners Sanctuary, Door County, Wisconsin, USA
September 6, 1997
5th instar larva eating Willow (Salix). Pupated September 7, 1997, overwintered in fruit cellar. Eclosed May 8, 1998.

Images of this individual: tag all
Fingered Dagger larva - Acronicta insita Fingered Dagger - Acronicta insita
tag · login or register to post comments
Contributed by Janice Stiefel on 9 March, 2006 - 4:47pm
Last updated 23 March, 2006 - 2:38pm

Handsome caterpillar
Hi Janice,
I think your larva/imago series is great stuff. The most obvious question to anyone with the slightest interest in insects is "What will this caterpillar become?" Your series will give many the answer to that question.
… Jim McClarin, 9 March, 2006 - 5:57pm login or register to post comments

Comment viewing options
Select your preferred way to display the comments and click 'Save settings' to activate your changes.

Disclaimer: Dedicated naturalists volunteer their time and resources here to provide this service. We strive to provide accurate information, but we are mostly just amateurs attempting to make sense of a diverse natural world. If you need expert professional advice, contact your local extension office.

Contributors own the copyright to and are solely responsible for contributed content.
Click the contributor's name for licensing and usage information.
Everything else copyright © 2003-2025 Iowa State University, unless otherwise noted.

Bugguide is hosted by:

Plant Pathology, Entomology and Microbiology at Iowa State University logo

Printer Friendly Version 		Terms of Use
Privacy Statement
Site Map
Contact