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Host plants include White Oak (Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants).
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A Spiny Oakworm Moth in Worcester Co., Maryland (7/1/2013).
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Scott Housten.
A Spiny Oakworm Moth in Wicomico Co., Maryland (7/17/2014).
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Mike Burchett.
A Spiny Oakworm Moth in Worcester Co., Maryland (6/28/2013).
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Scott Housten.
A Spiny Oakworm Moth in Montgomery Co., Maryland (6/19/2004).
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Dave Czaplak.
Scarlet-winged Lichen Moth (below) and Spiny Oakworm Moth (above) in Worcester Co., Maryland (7/10/2013).
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Scott Housten.
A Spiny Oakworm Moth emerging in Frederick Co., Maryland (7/8/2014).
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Richard Orr.
A Spiny Oakworm Moth.
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Dave Czaplak.
A Spiny Oakworm Moth in Howard Co., Maryland (2004).
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Larry Line.
A Spiny Oakworm Moth collected in Frederick Co., Maryland (7/3/2003).
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Mark Etheridge.
A Spiny Oakworm Moth.
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John Glaser.
Spiny Oakworm Moth in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (8/22/2020). (c) Matthew Beziat, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC).
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Matthew Beziat.
A Spiny Oakworm Moth caterpillar at Patuxent Research Refuge, Maryland (9/1/2012).
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Bonnie Ott.
A Spiny Oakworm Moth in Charles Co., Maryland (8/25/2010).
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Eric Gofreed.
A female Spiny Oakworm Moth in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (7/14/2014). First of a series of 12 photos showing larval development. Night 0 - A Spiny Oakworm Moth mother finds my exterior light.
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Timothy Reichard.
The eggs of a Spiny Oakworm Moth in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (7/15/2014). Night 1 - The mother is gone, but clumps of orange eggs appeared.
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Timothy Reichard.
Spiny Oakworm Moth eggs in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (7/15/2014). Night 1 - She also laid these 2 eggs on the siding, a bit isolated from the large clusters. I photographed these 2 eggs on subsequent nights to follow the larval development. The egg shells are clear, and the contents are orange.
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Timothy Reichard.
Spiny Oakworm Moth eggs in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (7/17/2014). Night 3 - A darker region appears in each egg.
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Timothy Reichard.
Spiny Oakworm Moth eggs in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (7/19/2014). Night 5 - The dark regions turn red. The larvae are the parts that remain orange.
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Timothy Reichard.
Spiny Oakworm Moth eggs in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (7/21/2014). Night 7 - Development continues.
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Timothy Reichard.
Spiny Oakworm Moth eggs in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (7/22/2014). Night 8 - The larvae's segments become more visible.
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Timothy Reichard.
Spiny Oakworm Moth eggs in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (7/23/2014). Night 9 - The abdominal segments turn pale, the heads remain orange, and the face darkens.
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Timothy Reichard.
Spiny Oakworm Moth eggs in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (7/24/2014). Night 10 - The large heads are more obvious now. The eggs are running out of room for the larvae.
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Timothy Reichard.
Spiny Oakworm Moth eggs in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (7/25/2014). Night 11 - It appears that the egg goo is depleted, and all that's left are larvae and egg shells. The heads have darkened.
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Timothy Reichard.
Spiny Oakworm Moth eggs in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (7/26/2014). Night 12 - The larvae remain inside these eggs, though the egg shell has been ruptured near the heads. The larvae probably began to work on escaping the shells, but are taking a break. Meanwhile...
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Timothy Reichard.
First instar Spiny Oakworm Moth caterpillars in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (7/27/2014). Night 12 - Even though the two larvae hadn't emerged, nearly all of the other larva had done so between Nights 11 and 12. There were more than 150 caterpillars that emerged.
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Timothy Reichard.
A Spiny Oakworm Moth with ovae in Howard Co., Maryland (7/12/2017).
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Anthony VanSchoor.
Source: Wikipedia
Spiny oakworm moth | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Saturniidae |
Genus: | Anisota |
Species: | A. stigma
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Binomial name | |
Anisota stigma (Fabricius, 1775)
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Anisota stigma, the spiny oakworm moth, is a moth of the family Saturniidae. The species was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775. It is found in North America from Massachusetts and southern Ontario to Florida, west to Minnesota, Kansas and Texas.
The wingspan is about 45 millimetres (2 in).
The larvae mainly feed on oak, but have also been reported on hazel and basswood. Anisota stigma is the only Anisota species with males known to be attracted to light.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Tuskes, Paul M. (1996). The wild silk moths of North America : a natural history of the Saturniidae of the United States and Canada. Ithaca, N.Y.: Comstock Pub. Associates. p. 71. ISBN 0801431301.
External links
[edit]- Bartlett, Troy (August 24, 2018). "Species Anisota stigma - Spiny Oakworm Moth - Hodges#7716". BugGuide. Retrieved November 7, 2018.