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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Butterflies and Moths
  6. Underwing, Tiger, Tussock, and Allied Moths
  7. Lymantria
  8. Porthetria
  9. Spongy Moth

species 83,366 observations

Spongy Moth

Lymantria dispar

Status
introduced
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supported by All

135 native plants
support it in the US
  • Caterpillar hosts Plants its caterpillars eat Northern Whitecedar, Basswood, Sassafras, Douglas-fir 134
  • Nectar plants Plants whose flowers it visits Shumard Oak 1

Children

  • LDD Moth

Range

United States

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

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