Butterflies and Moths of North America

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Green garden looper
Chrysodeixis eriosoma (Doubleday, 1843)


Family: Noctuidae
Subfamily:
Identification:
Wing Span: 4.2 cm
Life History:
Flight:
Caterpillar Hosts: They are polyphagous and have been reported to feed on over sixty species of plants.
Adult Food:
Habitat:
Range: Mostly cosmopolitan in distribution, it is a pest in Japan, China, India, Sri Lanka, the Malay Peninsula and Australasia.[1] It is present in Hawaii and recorded as an incursion in mainland North America and Russia.
Conservation:
NCGR:
Management Needs: