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sjweld Reedsburg, WI(Zone 4b) Aug 23, 2007

Found this little guy on my black eyed susans today. I assume he is some sort of moth? Anyone know exactly what he is?

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sjweld Reedsburg, WI(Zone 4b) Aug 24, 2007

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claypa West Pottsgrove, PA(Zone 6b) Aug 24, 2007

It's one of the looper moths, maybe Syngrapha epigaea?

http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/Files/Live/Living47.3F.shtml

http://www.marylandmoths.com/Html/Noctuidae.Plusinae.html

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sjweld Reedsburg, WI(Zone 4b) Aug 25, 2007

Yes, deffinatly in that family. Thanks! The pictures still make it hard to find an exact identity but oh well. I was really curious as to what the catapillar may have looked like. I had seen a very odd looking catapiller earlier in the season. That was before I had the camera I have now and I was not able to get a very good close up picture of it though.

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sjweld Reedsburg, WI(Zone 4b) Aug 25, 2007

I found the picture I have of the catapillar I had seen. Though I am not seeing any catapillar pictures under the Syngrapha epigaea, the other looper catapillars look nothing like this.

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claypa West Pottsgrove, PA(Zone 6b) Aug 25, 2007

I think this is a good possibility for the hairy blonde caterpillar, the American dagger moth:

http://bugguide.net/node/view/505

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