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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. Ear Moths
  8. Eastern American Ear Moths
  9. American Ear Moth

species 2,230 observations

American Ear Moth

Amphipoea americana

Status
presumed native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supported by All

271 native plants
support it in the US
  • Caterpillar hosts Plants its caterpillars eat Sallow Sedge, Bladder Sedge, Pennsylvania Sedge, Eastern Woodland Sedge 269
  • Nectar plants Plants whose flowers it visits Wild Bergamot, Flat-top White Aster 2

Range

United States

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

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