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Salt marsh moth (larva)

Estigmene acrea

Description:

About 1.5in long found in my garden on a green bean leaf

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4 Comments

EmilyUmbarger
EmilyUmbarger 10 years ago

Fantastic, thanks Aaron!

Aaron_G
Aaron_G 10 years ago

The larvae of this moth are incredibly variable and have a wide variety of host plants. They're also quite widespread across North America.

EmilyUmbarger
EmilyUmbarger 10 years ago

Yeah! All the neat moths! Second broods out too. My little boy is a good 'caterpillar finder'. Hehe

suzmonk
suzmonk 10 years ago

Wow, you've got all kinds of caterpillars crawling around at your place!

EmilyUmbarger
Spotted by
EmilyUmbarger

Michigan, USA

Spotted on Sep 21, 2013
Submitted on Sep 21, 2013

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