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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Oncocnemidinae » Sympistis » Sympistis forbesi - Hodges#10067.1 (Sympistis forbesi)
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Noctuidae on Triosteum perfoliatum, new shoots - Sympistis forbesi
Copyright © 2014 MJ Hatfield

Noctuidae on Triosteum perfoliatum, new shoots - Sympistis forbesi
Little Bluestem Prairie, Boone County, Iowa, USA
March 25, 2012
A Sympistis forbesi larva can be seen on the plant to the right.
Enough shoot material was taken to keep the larvae going until more plants could grow and be gathered as host.
Invariably there were be several larvae on each plant, with new, young instars showing up as the original ones molted and grew.

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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 2 March, 2014 - 5:40pm

MJ
This is just so fantastic...!!! What an impossibly small creature on an impossibly young plant.
… John van der Linden, 31 March, 2016 - 2:13pm login or register to post comments

 
I was looking for the
truly impossible, eggs, somewhere.
Although I didn't find them I did find tiny larvae on new shoots.

"Never be so focused on what you’re looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find."
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
… MJ Hatfield, 31 March, 2016 - 2:28pm login or register to post comments

 
:-)
:-)
… John van der Linden, 31 March, 2016 - 3:16pm login or register to post comments

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