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Turbulent Phosphila - Hodges#9618 (Phosphila turbulenta)
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Copyright © 2014
kittriana
Unknown cat -
Phosphila turbulenta
Magnolia, Tx, Texas, USA
January 9, 2014
Size: 1"
In the parsley eating leaf and stem cutworm style. Just had 5 days of hard freezes 17*,
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Contributed by
kittriana
on 9 January, 2014 - 8:17pm
Last updated 8 December, 2015 - 8:46am
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I was hoping this was going to turn out to be the answer to this riddle
but although
Phosphila turbulenta
gregariously skeletonizes the undersides of
Smilax
leaves, it appears that the early instars aren't hairy like that.
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Charley Eiseman
, 14 January, 2014 - 1:20pm
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Phosphila turbulenta
This looks to be
Phosphila turbulenta
(Noctuidae), but I've never known it to eat anything other than
Smilax
spp.
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Terry Harrison
, 9 January, 2014 - 8:27pm
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agreed,
I had been pulling smilax vines out of the yaupons, think he just landed there, and after he gave me a few sour looks, disappeared the nex day.. Thank you!
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kittriana
, 11 January, 2014 - 9:33am
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