Caterpillars on Northern Red Oak

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

Not native to the US

9 animals, most recorded first.

Nativity unknown

70 recorded only to genus or family, or with no nativity on record.

Western Tent Caterpillar Moth

on Northern Red Oak

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Caterpillars · handed down from oaks

What the records say

Eaten by · as larvae 9 records on oaks
Recorded on oaks, and handed down to its species.
- EDWIP (insect pathogens) 8 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.
- 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
- Wilson, G.G., 1972. Studies on Nosema fumiferanae a Microsporidian parasite of Choristoneura fumiferana (Clem.) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Ph.D. thesis, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
- Tanada, Y., and Kaya, H. K. 1993. Insect Pathology. Academic Press, San Diego. 666 pp.
- Morris, O. N. 1983. Microorganisms isolated from forest insects of British Columbia. J. Entomol. Soc. Brit. Columbia. 80:29-36.
- Martignoni, M.E., and Iwai, P.J., 1986. A Catalogue of Viral Diseases of insects, Mites, and Ticks. USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, OR, General Technical Report PNW-195, 4th edition,51 pp.
- 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.; Rothman, L.D., and Myers, J.H., 1994. Nuclear polyhedrosis virus treatment effect on reproductive potential of western tent caterpillar (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae). Environ. Entomol. 23(4):864-869.
and 2 more
Host to · as larvae 3 records on oaks
Recorded on oaks, and handed down to its species.
- Gandhi 2009 2 records
  
  Gandhi, K. J. K., & Herms, D. A. (2009). North American arthropods at risk due to widespread Fraxinus mortality caused by the Alien Emerald ash borer. Biological Invasions, 12(6), 1839–1846. doi:10.1007/s10530-009-9594-1.
- 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.
- Keen FP (1952) Insect enemies of western forests. USDA Forest Service, Miscellaneous Publication No. 273
- Johnson WT, Lyon HH (1988) Insects that feed on trees and shrubs, 2nd edn. Cornell University Press, Ithaca