Halysidota tessellaris – Banded Tussock Moth

Family Erebidae    Hodges # 8203

Caterpillar food: many trees and shrubs – birch, alder, ash, birch, elm, hazel, hickory, oak, poplar, walnut, willow  (Bugguide)

Adults can’t be told from Halysidota harrisii (Sycamore Tussock Moth) except by dissection or caterpillars and food plants, but since we’re too far north for Sycamore trees, I’m sure all these are H. tessellaris.

6/27/2018

 

6/13/2016

 

7/8/2019

 

8/1/2018

 

8/12/2009   Caterpillar eating oak leaves

 

8/18/2009

 

9/2/2009

 

9/9/2009

 

9/9/2009

 

9/27/2009

 

6/17/2010   The cocoon spent the winter in a plastic container in the refrigerator.  I took it outside in April, and the moth emerged on June 17, 2010.

 

6/17/2010   The cocoon after the moth had emerged

on Bugguide