Family Erebidae Hodges # 8293
Caterpillar foods: has been reared on oak, hazel, birch, elm, beech, Amelanchier, willow (Bugguide) and cherry (see below)
8/14/2020 Caterpillar found eating Black Oak
8/20/2020 Oak leaf damage
10/24/2020 Put inside a flowerpot, buried in the ground for the winter.
3/6/2021 Taken out 3/6/2020. It stayed still for a long time – not moving, not eating, not growing.
5/3/2021 Finally started moving and eating – I didn’t remember what I had fed it, so offered several choices and it chose Black Cherry.
5/23/2021 Eating black cherry
6/2/2021
6/10/2021
6/10/2021
6/24/2021 Made a cocoon in the bottom of the jar, dug down into sphagnum.
4/1/2022 I kept the cocoon for a long time – not wanting to believe it was dead. I overwintered it again. But when I opened it up one end was dried up and wrinkled. I put it outside just in case, but I think it didn’t make it.