Family Erebidae    Hodges # 8316

Caterpillar foods: many hardwood trees and conifers – apple, black locust, cherry, apple, birch, elm, hackberry, hickory, oak, rose, willow, fir, hemlock, larch, spruce (Bugguide)

Females have no wings.

6/15/2009  found eating Wild Black Cherry leaves (Prunus serotina).

6/20/2009

7/1/2009  it pupated.    It covered the pupa with a layer of silk with some black hairs mixed in.

7/7/2009   Male moth emerged.

6/24/2018

7/13/2019

8/2/2019

10/8/2017

7/3/2011

7/10/2013

9/9/2012

9/14/2015

9/26/2014

10/1/2014

7/29/2017