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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) » Hadenini » Melanchra » Hitched Arches - Hodges#10292 (Melanchra adjuncta)
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Noctuidae, Hitched Arches - Melanchra adjuncta
Copyright © 2014 MJ Hatfield

Noctuidae, Hitched Arches - Melanchra adjuncta
Ames - Tullamore, Story County, Iowa, USA
July 4, 2009
July 3, 2009: collected larva on Verbascum sp.
uly 5, 2009: can't find the larva, is it beneath the peat substrate?
July 10, 2009: this silken structure appeared
July 14, 2009: more wasps emerged (no notation when they began appearing)
July 23, 2009: photo taken of the silken structure, also looked closely through the rearing jar and found no evidence of leftover lep larva

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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 9 February, 2014 - 2:17pm

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