CLOSED: Munching our new redbud tree! Good guys or bad?

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Cheryl_103 Pittsburgh, PA(Zone 6a) Aug 26, 2008

If these will eventually turn into nice butterflies, I'll let them go in the woods. But they will NOT be allowed back on our newly planted redbud tree!

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Cheryl_103 Pittsburgh, PA(Zone 6a) Aug 26, 2008

Another shot of Larry, Moe & Curly...

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claypa West Pottsgrove, PA(Zone 6b) Aug 26, 2008

I think it's a Red-humped caterpillar moth Schizura concinna:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Snodgrass_Schizura_concinna.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/tmurray74/image/67116595

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Cheryl_103 Pittsburgh, PA(Zone 6a) Aug 26, 2008

That's it, on the nose!
Thanks much, Claypa!

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Cheryl_103 Pittsburgh, PA(Zone 6a) Aug 26, 2008

I found a link showing what the adult moth looks like:
http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=1540365

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claypa West Pottsgrove, PA(Zone 6b) Aug 26, 2008

That must be Shemp

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Cheryl_103 Pittsburgh, PA(Zone 6a) Sep 09, 2008

Shemp....heh heh heh.....good one, claypa.
:D

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trackinsand mid central, FL(Zone 9a) Sep 09, 2008

wow, those are pretty little critters, aren't they?

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