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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 » Oneida » Orange-tufted Oneida - Hodges#5588 (Oneida lunulalis)
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A fast caterpillar - Oneida lunulalis
Copyright © 2014 Scott Ditzel

A fast caterpillar - Oneida lunulalis
Dallas, Paulding County, Georgia, USA
June 18, 2014
Size: about an inch
This caterpillar lives on a small Oak tree in my back yard. It is one a single specimen, but it lives in a sort of "tent made with it's silk & hides between 2 leaves if I get too close for it's comfort. It moves pretty fast for a caterpillar too...

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A fast caterpillar - Oneida lunulalis A fast caterpillar - Oneida lunulalis
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Contributed by Scott Ditzel on 19 June, 2014 - 5:10pm
Last updated 8 June, 2023 - 9:03pm

Moved
Moved from Pyralid Moths.
… George Smiley, 8 June, 2023 - 9:03pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Charley Eiseman, 30 June, 2014 - 5:54am login or register to post comments

Pyralidae
This is something in the family Pyralidae; I don't recognize the species. It would be good if you could put the leaf shelter, with the caterpillar inside, into a closed jar, and see if a moth comes out in a couple of weeks, and if so, then submit a photo of the moth alongside this larval photo. There is a good chance that someone would be able to identify the adult moth down to species. It would be very good if we could start getting associated larva/adult images for some of these pyralids. Good luck!
… Terry Harrison, 20 June, 2014 - 9:58am login or register to post comments

 
Went to the tree this afterno
Went to the tree this afternoon & the caterpillar is gone... I an attaching an image of it's "tent" like home which is still there.... I suspect that one of the predatory wasps got to it. There is a Carpenter Bee nest that a predator wasp took over & just yesterday I took an image of a number of small dead caterpillars ouside the nest (see 2nd image)
… Scott Ditzel, 20 June, 2014 - 7:05pm login or register to post comments

 
Pococera
A lot of these strongly head-patterned pyralids seem to be falling out into Pococera.
… LaciP, 20 June, 2014 - 1:46pm login or register to post comments

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