Family Noctuidae Hodges # 9957
Caterpillar foods: cabbage, cherry, crabapple, dock, elm, grass, maple, peach, plum, oak, tobacco, willow (Bugguide)
Similar looking to Apamea helva.
Two color forms – one with the forewing yellow with shadings of brown or gray; one with the outer half of the forewing dark purplish gray (Bugguide)
9/6/2012
9/20/2012
9/20/2012
9/26/2012
9/29/2012 The bicolor form seems much more uncommon. Here’s one – it wouldn’t keep its wings still.
10/23/2012 Another of the bicolor form
