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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths (Pyraloidea) » Pyralid Moths (Pyralidae) » Epipaschiinae » Pococera » Pococera baptisiella - Hodges#5619 (Pococera baptisiella)
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Pyralidae larva on Lead plant - Pococera baptisiella
Copyright © 2014 MJ Hatfield

Pyralidae larva on Lead plant - Pococera baptisiella
Red Oak Prairie, Allamakee County, Iowa, USA
August 27, 2009
August 24, 2009: collected larva on Lead plant, Amorpha canescens
September 29, 2009: dead
Over the years I've found several different moth larvae on Lead plant but have had mostly (not all) failure in rearing.

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Pyralidae larva on Lead plant - Pococera baptisiella Pyralidae larva on Lead plant - Pococera baptisiella
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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 17 February, 2014 - 7:22am
Last updated 7 January, 2017 - 10:05am

Moved
Moved from Moths.
… MJ Hatfield, 6 March, 2014 - 7:54pm login or register to post comments

Pococera
Pococera baptisiella has been reared from leadplant in Illinois; that probably is what this is.
… Terry Harrison, 6 March, 2014 - 6:21pm login or register to post comments

 
It's a lovely larva
and a lovely moth. Too bad it didn't work out to rear.
Thanks much!
… MJ Hatfield, 6 March, 2014 - 7:56pm login or register to post comments

It is built like a Pococera, such as Pococera expandens,
but when we do a host plant search on Amorpha, the only pyralid we get is Sciota vetustella???
… john and jane balaban, 17 February, 2014 - 11:11am login or register to post comments

 
Again, it could have been
on lead plant accidentally. If that's the case then it wouldn't have eaten and that's why it died. Not it's host plant.
But usually I do note if the larva is not eating and also note the plants I try to feed it.

Rearing often brings up more questions than are answered.
… MJ Hatfield, 17 February, 2014 - 11:44am login or register to post comments

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