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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Underwing, Tiger, Tussock, and Allied Moths
  7. Orgyia
  8. Definite Tussock Moth

species 10,231 observations

Definite Tussock Moth

Orgyia definita

Status
native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supported by All

90 native plants
support it in the US
  • Caterpillar hosts Plants its caterpillars eat Red Maple, Quaking Aspen, Basswood, American Witch-hazel 89
  • Nectar plants Plants whose flowers it visits Roundleaf Greenbrier 1

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

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