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harrymole Irwin, PA(Zone 6a) Jul 30, 2019

Hello, I don't have a picture of this hungry Cat., because I killed it for eating my pole bead leaves. By the time I got back out with the camera, it had turned black from the sun. I can describe it though: About 1.25" long with a dark red head. The body was green, with slight hair. There was a thin red or orange stripe running down each side of this pre-moth or butterfly, head to tail.

It had spun a web around some leaves and I found it hiding in it's day sleeping B & B. The temp here has been in the 90's for a few weeks.

I live in PA zone 5, near Pittsburgh.

Thanks for your help

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Jul 30, 2019

It might be a bean leafroller, Urbanus proteus (family Hesperiidae) - http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/veg/bean/bean_leafroller.htm

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harrymole Irwin, PA(Zone 6a) Oct 02, 2019

Thank You

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