Phobetron pithecium – Monkey Slug/Hag Moth

Hodges # 4677

Caterpillar foods: apple, ash, birch, willow, walnut, oak, and many other shrubs and trees

7/19/2014

Phobetron pithecium 7-19-14 8

 

7/19/2014

Phobetron pithecium 7-19-14 9

 

9/1/2008   Caterpillar feeding on a small oak, on the underside of the leaves

 

9/1/2008

 

9/19/2008  Caterpillar has lost some of its fuzz and ‘legs’.

 

10/11/2008  Cocoon – I kept it over the winter, but the adult never emerged.

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