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Caterpillars on Bur Oak

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

Not native to the US

1 animal, most recorded first.

Nativity unknown

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

Eastern Tent Caterpillar Moth

on Bur Oak

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Caterpillars · handed down from oaks

What the records say

  • Eaten by · as larvae 15 records on oaks

    Recorded on oaks, and handed down to its species.

    • EDWIP (insect pathogens) 12 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.

    • 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.

    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.
    • 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; Smirnoff, W.A., 1975. Histological studies on the development of the microsporidian Thelohania pristiphorae in larvae of Malacosoma disstria and Malacosoma americanum. J. Invertebr. Pathol. 26: 410-403.; Smirnoff, W.A. 1966. Thelohania pristiphorae sp. n., a microsporidian parasite of the larch sawfly, Pristiphora erichsonii (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae). J. Invertebr. Pathol. 8:360-364.
    • 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.
    • 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

    and 10 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

  • Interacts with 1 record
    • iNaturalist 1 record

      iNaturalist community observations of species interactions.