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Striped Garden Caterpillar Moth - Hodges#10304 (Trichordestra legitima)
Photo#838958
Copyright © 2013
stan gilliam
Moth -
Trichordestra legitima
Oak Ridge, Guilford County, North Carolina, USA
September 7, 2013
Size: ~ 16mm long
Can't ID this one after much searching.
Porch light visitor.
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Contributed by
stan gilliam
on 9 September, 2013 - 2:06pm
Thanks
for using the creative commons license - I'm using your image to help teach a class at the University of Maryland. I took a photo of the caterpillar of this species, also posted on bugguide. The caterpillar was eating a native grass. I'll be teaching about using native grasses in gardens and this will help to highlight one of their functions - supporting pollinators. Most people don't think of grasses when they think of pollinator gardens.
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Sara Tangren
, 19 October, 2014 - 4:37pm
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stan gilliam
, 9 September, 2013 - 3:04pm
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10304 - Trichordestra legitima
I found it in a couple of minutes using this page:
Walking Through the Families
at MPG. If you make a practice of using this series of pages you will find the majority of your moths with not too much difficulty. (no rsvp, thanks)
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Bob Patterson
, 9 September, 2013 - 2:56pm
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