Location: New Brunswick, Canada Posts: 664 Joined: 08.02.07
19 September 2007, New Brunswick, Canada.
Perhaps our most gaudy local caterpillar. Feeding on Aster leaf in full sun, certainly not cryptic - perhaps warning colouration?
Noctuid Cucullia convexipennis
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Location: Moscow region, Russia Posts: 3331 Joined: 17.10.05
Brown Hooded Owlet, Cucullia convexipennis (Noctuidae, Cuculliinae)
While others can't climb, using infinite pains,
I, gravity turning to jest,
Ascend, with all ease, perpendicular planes,
Rough or smooth, just as pleases me best.
Does someone has a scan of Nartshuk E.P. 2003. Key to families of Diptera (Insecta) of the fauna of Russian and adjacent countries. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute Vol. 294: 1-252 for me?