Family Geometridae Hodges # 7058
Caterpillar foods: many plants – often composite flowers but also many other flowering plants, shrubs and trees (Bugguide)
The caterpillars decorate their bodies with pieces of plants – usually flower petals – for camouflage. The caterpillars are very small – about 1/4″ long.
Males have pectinate antennae, females have simple antennae.
8/5/2025
9/3/2017
8/27/2011 – Caterpillar on White Snakeroot – (Ageratina altissima)
8/28/2011
8/28/2011
9/20/2014 on Sky-blue Aster (Symphyotrichum oolentangiense)
7/25/2016 – on Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)
8/13/2023
6/10/2016
