Fwd: Re: Epelis truncataria

[Chris J. Durden]

>Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 12:37:19 -0500
>To: jhimmel at mindspring.com
>From: "Chris J. Durden" <drdn at mail.utexas.edu>
>Subject: Re: Epelis truncataria
>
>I have reared it from larvae on *Vaccinium angustifolium* in Ontario. 
>Forbes quotes Dyar as reporting them raised in Colorado on 
>*Arctostaphylos*. My guess is that they are rather general feeders on 
>Ericaceae. In Ontario and Quebec I never found them scarce and I saw them 
>as recently as last May in several bogs in the Laurentians.
>.......................Chris Durden
>
>At 07:15 PM 5/27/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>>Hi leplisters - I came across a population of these interesting little
>>day-flying geometers today - Epelis truncataria.  Picture at
>>www.connecticutmoths.com. Does anyone know their hostplant?  They are a
>>wetland species and I found these in a cranberry bog here in CT.
>>
>>Compared to previous years, the mothing has been pretty slow - but it's been
>>a crazy spring.
>>
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>>John Himmelman
>>Killingworth, CT USA
>>jhimmel at mindspring.com
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