Nameless Pinion

Description:

Identification Adult: forewing yellowish-tan with dark brown median shade and subterminal line; very diffuse blackish subreniform spot, often with irregular outline; two blackish blotches in terminal area; pairs of small black dashes on veins form AM and PM lines; hindwing solid dark gray with pale fringe [adapted from description by Charles Covell] Larva: body light or dark brown to gray or steel blue, often with middorsal, subdorsal, and spiracular stripes; middorsal stripe often reddish brown to rusty; dorsum usually marked with vague dark chevrons, darkest on A8; head brown with darker mottling and dark bar to either side of midline; penultimate instar has broad creamy spiracular stripe, broken middorsal stripe that is thickest between segments, and subdorsal stripe composed of whitish spots [adapted from description by David Wagner et al] Range across southern Canada and northern United States, south in the east to Georgia (in mountains) Habitat mixed and deciduous forests and woodlots; adults are nocturnal and come to light and bait Season adults fly from September to November, and again from February to May (April to June in the north) larvae usually in June and July; sometimes as early as April Food larvae feed on leaves of alder, apple, basswood, birch, cherry, fir, hawthorn, hemlock, hickory, hornbeam, maple, oak, pine, spruce, willow, and many other woody plants Life Cycle one generation per year; overwinters as an adult

Habitat:

Forests.