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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Ribbed Cocoon-maker and Leaf Blotch Miner Moths (Gracillarioidea) » Leaf Blotch Miner Moths (Gracillariidae) » Gracillariinae » Caloptilia
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Little Leaf-folding Caterpillar ID Request - Caloptilia
Copyright © 2013 Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City

Little Leaf-folding Caterpillar ID Request - Caloptilia
Herring Run Watershed, Baltimore City County, Maryland, USA
July 30, 2013
Observed on Juglans nigra.
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Contributed by Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City on 6 August, 2013 - 11:36pm
Last updated 28 August, 2013 - 7:25am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Charley Eiseman, 28 August, 2013 - 7:25am login or register to post comments

Possibly Caloptilia juglandiella...
but I have no experience with that species and would like to see mines/rolls of that species in the vicinity to confirm.
… Charley Eiseman, 28 August, 2013 - 7:25am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Leaf Mines.
… Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City, 8 August, 2013 - 5:31pm login or register to post comments

Cocoon
There is no leaf mine in this photo, although that may be a mature caterpillar of a leaf-mining species (Gracillariidae?).
… Charley Eiseman, 8 August, 2013 - 4:04pm login or register to post comments

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