Family Erebidae Hodges # 8574
Caterpillar foods: mainly soybeans, but also other plants in the Fabaceae including peanut, kudzu, velvetbean, horse bean, cowpea, coffeeweed, black locust, hairy indigo, lespedeza, sesbania, white sweetclover; also cotton (Bugguide)
The caterpillar is a pest on soybeans in Florida and other southeastern states. It spends the winter at the southern tip of Florida, and migrates north during the summer.
9/30/2016
10/28/2016
