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small white moth - Prodoxus decipiens
Copyright © 2006 Jim McClarin

small white moth - Prodoxus decipiens
Pelham, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
Size: 8mm head-to-wingtip
Here are some chunks of dried yucca stalk showing inside and outside of stalk. You can see a pupa sticking up out of its cocoon on the chunk in back. Tunneling is quite apparent.

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Contributed by Jim McClarin on 26 March, 2006 - 3:37pm
Last updated 20 April, 2008 - 9:20pm

Moved
Moved from Tegeticula yuccasella complex.
… Jim McClarin, 18 May, 2007 - 5:13am login or register to post comments

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