Caterpillars on Pussy Willow

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

Not native to the US

1 animal, most recorded first.

Spongy Moth Lymantria dispar 2 records · introduced

Nativity unknown

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

Canadian Agonopterix Moth

on Pussy Willow

Open

Caterpillars · handed down from willows

What the records say

Host to · as larvae 1 record on willows
Recorded on willows, 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
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.
Found next to 1 record
- Wis Ih Wirc 1 record
  
  WIRC / University of Wisconsin Madison WIS-IH / Wisconsin Insect Research Collection
References