Common Looper (Autographa precationis) - Insect Identification
Mar 5, 2022 · Caterpillars for the Common Looper are bright green, like the leaves and stems they sit on as they feed. Their round bodies are plump and fleshy with a thin, white line on each side running from head to rear.
Species Autographa precationis - Common Looper - Hodges#8908
Sep 20, 2018 · Adults - inner part of stigma hollow, V-shaped, usually connected to outer part, but frequently separated into two separate spots. See four ways to distinguish adults of this species from Chrysodeixis includens in "See also" section below. Nova Scotia to Ontario, south to Georgia, west to Wisconsin, and Kansas (Eichlin & Cunningham, 1978). (2)
Timing is everything: The Common Looper Moth - Bug News
Feb 8, 2022 · The caterpillar of the Common Looper Moth eats a wide variety of herbaceous plants (=things that don’t have woody stems), from the leaves of things like weedy dandelions, clovers, and asters, to crop plants like tomatoes, beans, and cabbage.
Common Looper Moth - The Wisconsin Moths Field Guide
As a member of the Noctuidae family, the Common Looper Moth gets its name from the way its caterpillar moves in a looping or “inchworm” motion. The caterpillars are typically green with white stripes and have three pairs of prolegs.
Cabbage looper - Wikipedia
The cabbage looper (Trichoplusia ni) is a medium-sized moth in the family Noctuidae, a family commonly referred to as owlet moths. Its common name comes from its preferred host plants and distinctive crawling behavior.
Geometer Moths, Inchworms, and Loopers: Family Geometridae
Dec 11, 2019 · With no legs in the middle section of its body, a Geometer moth caterpillar moves in a looping fashion. It anchors itself with the rear prolegs, extends its body forward, and then pulls its hind end up to meet its front end.
How these trickster caterpillars outwit and outlast other insects
Aug 5, 2024 · Blackberry looper caterpillars pretend to be simple twigs or other plant parts. Jaffe notes that as adult moths, they are “absolutely beautiful little green things.” The eight-spotted...
Common Looper Moth - Fontenelle Forest Nature Search
This moth is very similar to the Soybean Looper (Chrysodeixis includens) but it does not have a red collar and the stigma has more of a U-shape. The caterpillar is green with many whitish squiggly lines.
Geometer moth - Wikipedia
The caterpillars are accordingly called "loopers", "spanworms", or "inchworms" after their characteristic looping gait. The cabbage looper and soybean looper are not inchworms but caterpillars of a different family. In many species of geometer moths, the inchworms are about 25 mm (1.0 in) long.
Erebidae - fact sheet - Key Search
Looper caterpillars in the Erebidae and Noctuidae are commonly called ‘semi-loopers’ to differentiate them from geometrids (see information below on separating loopers form semi-loopers).