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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Tiger and Lichen Moths (Arctiinae) » Tiger Moths (Arctiini) » Spilosomina » Estigmene » Salt Marsh Moth - Hodges#8131 (Estigmene acrea)
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unknown larva feeding on milkweed leaf - Estigmene acrea
Copyright © 2013 mholland

unknown larva feeding on milkweed leaf - Estigmene acrea
Hartland, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
August 14, 2013
Larva was feeding on a common milkweed leaf.
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Contributed by mholland on 14 August, 2013 - 5:46pm
Last updated 14 November, 2013 - 10:19pm

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We have already said it looks to be Estigmene. See here:
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Looks to be
Estigmene
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moth larva
Thank you so much...I'm wondering if it isn't Simyra henrici (Henry's Marsh Moth).
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