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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Dart, Sallow, and Cutworm Moths and Allies
  7. Dagger Moths
  8. Lupine and Smeared Daggers and Allies
  9. Smeared Dagger

species 7,957 observations

Smeared Dagger

Acronicta oblinita

Status
native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supported by All

144 native plants
support it in the US
  • Caterpillar hosts Plants its caterpillars eat Fireweed, Bog Myrtle, Broadleaf Cattail, Allegheny Blackberry 130
  • Nectar plants Plants whose flowers it visits American Sweetgum, American Jumpseed, Water Smartweed, Pale Smartweed 14

Range

United States

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

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