Vitula edmandsii – Dried Fruit Moth

Family Pyralidae   Hodges # 6007

Caterpillar foods:  invades beehives;  In western N. America a similar species (Vitula serratilineella) is a pest of stored dried fruits.  These two may be a single species, although the eastern ones don’t seem to be pests on stored fruits.  (Bugguide)

10/3/2013

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