Owlet Caterpillars of Eastern North America /

This lavishly illustrated field guide features more than 800 species of the most common, interesting, beautiful, and important owlet (noctuid) caterpillars found in eastern North America. More than 2,100 color photographs include numerous stunning images, and the guide's introductory sections o...

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Autores principales: Wagner, David L., 1956- (Autor), Reardon, Richard C. (Autor), Sullivan, J. Bolling (James Bolling), 1940- (Autor), Schweitzer, Dale F. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2011]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Noctuidae.
Caterpillars.
NATURE > Reference.
NATURE > Animals > Butterflies & Moths.
Caterpillars > Canada, Eastern > Identification.
Caterpillars > East (U.S.) > Identification.
Noctuidae > Canada, Eastern > Identification.
Noctuidae > East (U.S.) > Identification.
East United States.
Eastern Canada.
Field guides.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Birds and caterpillars (and climate change)
  • Importance of owlet caterpillars and adults. A note on nomenclature
  • Morphology
  • Larval diets
  • Finding caterpillars
  • Beating and sweeping
  • Collecting adults
  • Baiting. Wine ropes
  • John Peacock's bait recipe
  • Bait trapping
  • Collecting, vouchering, and conservation
  • Feeding adults
  • Obtaining pairings
  • Obtaining and handling eggs
  • Rearing caterpillars
  • Sleeving
  • Overwintering larvae and pupae
  • Natural enemies. Exotic biological control agents
  • Guest essay on owlet classification / Charles Mitter
  • Classification and nomenclature
  • About this book
  • Making identification. Transformers
  • Voucher data and specimens
  • Diagnosing owlet caterpillars
  • Keys to owlet larvae
  • Supplemental digital resources
  • Species accounts. Quadrifine owlets (Family Erebidae). Litter moths (Subfamily Herminiinae)
  • Pangraptines (Subfamily Pangraptinae)
  • Snouts (Subfamily Hypeninae)
  • Straws (Subfamily Rivulinae)
  • Scalloped moths (Subfamily Scoliopteryginae)
  • Caterpillar mimicry
  • Fruitpiercing moths (Subfamily Calpinae)
  • Necklace moths (Subfamily Hypocalinae)
  • Scolecocampines (Subfamily Scolecocampinae)
  • Halflings (Subfamily Hypenodinae)
  • Fungus moths (Subfamily Boletobiinae)
  • Phytometrines (Subfamily Phytometrinae)
  • Underwings, zales, witches, and kin (Subfamily Erebinae)
  • Dyar's rule
  • Eulepidotines (Subfamily Eulepidotinae)
  • Elves (Family Euteliidae)
  • Nolas and punkies (Family Nolidae). Nolas and punkies (Subfamily Nolinae)
  • Chloephorines (Subfamily Chloephorines)
  • Baileyas (Subfamily Risobinae)
  • Concanas and kin (Subfamily Collomeninae)
  • Lichen punkies (Subfamily Afridinae)
  • Trifine owlets (Family Noctuidae). Loopers (Subfamily Plusiinae)
  • Tumblers (Subfamily Bagisarinae)
  • Resplendent moths (Subfamily Cydosiinae)
  • Eustrotiines (Subfamily Eustrotiinae)
  • Bird-dropping moths (Subfamily Acontiinae)
  • Pantheas and yellowhorns (Subfamily Pantheinae)
  • Hieroglyphic moths (Subfamily Diphtherinae)
  • Brothers (Subfamily Dilobinae)
  • Balsas (Subfamily Balsinae)
  • Daggers (Subfamily Acronictinae)
  • Foresters (Subfamily Agaristinae)
  • Paints or hooded owlets (Subfamily Oncocnemidinae)
  • Amphipyrines (Subfamily Amphipyrinae)
  • Seedcoppers (Subfamily Stiriinae)
  • Sun moths (Subfamily Heliothinae)
  • Groundlings and kin (Subfamily Condicinae)
  • Fern moths (Subfamily Eriopinae)
  • Cutworms, lash-eyed sallows, sallows, and kin (Subfamily Noctuinae)
  • Puddling
  • Moths and ears and bats
  • Moth ear mites

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