Calyptra canadensis – Canadian Owlet

Family Erebidae    Hodges # 8536

Caterpillar foods:  meadow-rue (Thalictrum spp.)  (Bugguide)

Calyptra adults suck on fruit by piercing the skin with their proboscis.  Males of some species will suck the blood of mammals, possibly to use the salt for mating.  (Entomology Today)

8/28/2013

 

6/29/2019

 

8/21/2011 – the only photo I’ve gotten with its wings open

 

8/8/2018

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