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Caterpillars on Dwarf Live Oak

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

Orange-tipped Oakworm Moth

on Dwarf Live Oak

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Caterpillars · handed down from oaks

What the records say

  • Eaten by · as larvae 6 records on oaks

    Recorded on oaks, and handed down to its species.

    • EDWIP (insect pathogens) 3 records

      Sarah E Miller. 12/13/2016. Species associations manually extracted from Onstad, D.W. EDWIP: Ecological Database of the World's Insect Pathogens. Champaign, Illinois: Illinois Natural History Survey, [23/11/2016]. http://insectweb.inhs.uiuc.edu/Pathogens/EDWIP.

    • iNaturalist 2 records

      iNaturalist community observations of species interactions.

    • 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

    • Sprague, V. 1977. Annotated List of Species of Microsporidia. pp. 31-334. In Bulla, L.A. and Cheng, T.C. [eds.], Comparative Pathobiology V. 2; Systematics of the Microsporidia. Plenum Press, New York; Kaya, H.K., 1973. Pathogenicity of Pleistophora schubergi to larvae of the Orange-striped oakworm and other Lepidopterous insects. J. Invertebr. Pathol. 22: 356-358.; Brooks, W. M. 1988. Entomogenous protozoa, pp. 1-121 in C. M. Ignoffo (ed.) CRC Handbook of Natural Pesticides Vol. 5 Microbial Insecticides, Part A, Entomogenous Protozoa and Fungi. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
    • Martignoni, M.E. and Iwai, P.J. A catalogue of viral diseases of insects, mites and ticks. Appendix 2 [pp. 899-912] In, H.D. Burges (ed.) Microbial Control of Pests and Plant Diseases, 1970-1980. London: Academic Press, 1981. 949 pp.; Adams, J.R., and McClintock, J.T. 1991. Baculoviridae. nuclear polyhedrosis viruses Part 1. Nuclear polyhedrosis viruses of insects. pp. 87-204 in Adams, J.R. and Bonami, J.R. [Eds.] Atlas of Invertebrate Viruses. CRC Press, Boston.
    • Henry, J. E., 1981. Natural and applied control of insects by protozoa. Ann. Rev. Entomol. 26: 49-73.; Kaya, H.K., 1973. Pathogenicity of Pleistophora schubergi to larvae of the Orange-striped oakworm and other Lepidopterous insects. J. Invertebr. Pathol. 22: 356-358.; Kaya, H. K. 1975. Persistence of spores of Pleistophora schubergi (Cnidospora, Microsporidia) in the field, and their application in microbial control. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 26: 329-332.
    • 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.
    • iNaturalist observation 68895515

    and 1 more

  • 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