Caterpillars on Dwarf Live Oak

250 native moths and butterflies raised on it, most recorded first.

Similar Underwing

on Dwarf Live Oak

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Caterpillars · handed down from oaks

What the records say

Eaten by · as larvae 4 records on oaks
Recorded on oaks, and handed down to its species.
- Hale et al. 2024 3 records
  
  Hale, Kayla R. S. and Curlis, John David and Auteri, Giorgia G. and Bishop, Sasha and French, Rowan L. K. and Jones, Lance E. and Mills, Kirby L. and Scholtens, Brian G. and Simons, Meagan and Thompson, Cody and Tourville, Jordon and Valdovinos, Fernanda S. (2024). A highly resolved network reveals the role of terrestrial herbivory in structuring aboveground food webs.
- NHM Interactions Bank 1 record
  
  Ed Baker; Ian J. Kitching; George W. Beccaloni; Amoret Whitaker et al. (2016). Dataset: NHM Interactions Bank. Natural History Museum Data Portal (data.nhm.ac.uk). https://doi.org/10.5519/0060767
References
- Kayla R. S. Hale (Expert)
- Jordon Tourville (Expert)
- Edward Baker; Ian Kitching; George W Beccaloni; Amoret Whitaker; Steen Dupont; Vincent Smith; John S Noyes (2017). NHM Interactions Bank. https://doi.org/10.5519/0060767. Accessed at <https://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/82e807f0-6273-4f19-be0a-7f7558442a25/resource/f84ad9f1-bd0c-4811-8108-8dcd83f224a4/download/nhminteractionsbank.csv> on 14 Jul 2026.
- Brian G. Scholtens (Expert)
Host to · as larvae 1 record on oaks
Recorded on oaks, and handed down to its species.
- HOSTS (NHM caterpillar host plants) 1 record
  
  Gaden S. Robinson; Phillip R. Ackery; Ian Kitching; George W Beccaloni; Luis M. Hernández (2023). HOSTS (from HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants) [Data set resource]. Natural History Museum. https://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/hosts/resource/877f387a-36a3-486c-a0c1-b8d5fb69f85a via Natural History Museum (2023). Data Portal query on 1 resources created at 2023-05-24 11:19:42.032183 PID https://doi.org/10.5519/qd.bsucrxdz
References
- Gaden S. Robinson; Phillip R. Ackery; Ian Kitching; George W Beccaloni; Luis M. Hernández (2023). HOSTS (from HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants) [Data set resource]. Natural History Museum. https://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/hosts/resource/877f387a-36a3-486c-a0c1-b8d5fb69f85a via Natural History Museum (2023). Data Portal query on 1 resources created at 2023-05-24 11:19:42.032183 PID https://doi.org/10.5519/qd.bsucrxdz. Accessed at <https://github.com/globalbioticinteractions/HOSTS/archive/808e0b869f9ec1adf8efff87cf6a395adda103e0.zip> on 13 Jul 2026.