Black V butt aster type

(Noctuidae)

Host plant:Vernonia patens
(Compositae)

 
Caterpillar Description

Other Images

 

LIFE HISTORY DATA

Rearing results and development times

 As of May 2003, N=8 rearings: 2 eclosed, 6 died.

Host plants

 Compositae: Vernonia patens

Parasitoids

 

Predators

 

Observations and comments

 We have not successfully reared enough adults to properly separate the "aster type" noctuid caterpillars. Different morphs of caterpillar may represent one or several species. See Other Images for a different brown morph.

Voucher location

 Tulane University