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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Apameini » Loscopia » Veiled Ear Moth - Hodges#9454 (Loscopia velata)
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White-striped caterpillar - Loscopia velata
Copyright © 2006 john and jane balaban

White-striped caterpillar - Loscopia velata
Harms Woods Forest Preserve, Glenview, Cook County, Illinois, USA
May 20, 2006
Size: ~20mm
We found this caterpillar feeding on Luzula multiflora and figured anything eating such a wonderful plant must be a wonderful caterpillar! But we had no luck with Wagner (saw a Plusia with only two sets of abdominal prolegs!) And no luck with the caterpillar hostplant database. Aaargh! Lateral view.

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Contributed by john and jane balaban on 4 June, 2006 - 5:55pm
Last updated 25 September, 2011 - 6:33pm

Moved
Moved from Owlet Moths.
… john and jane balaban, 25 September, 2011 - 6:33pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Butterflies and Moths.
… john and jane balaban, 18 December, 2006 - 6:47pm login or register to post comments

A possibility
In the back of "Caterpillars in the Field and Garden" there are a handful of moth caterpillar photos, including Amphipoea velata, Veiled Ear Moth, that looks pretty similar. Is Luzula multiflora a grass?
… Cliff Bernzweig, 5 June, 2006 - 9:21pm login or register to post comments

 
Luzula is Hairy Wood Rush
It's in the rush family, Juncaceae.
… john and jane balaban, 9 June, 2006 - 4:33pm login or register to post comments

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