Host Plant: Ambrosia trifida [Giant Ragweed]
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Determined by: Gentry
Life size
Time as pupae and rearing results: As of May 2005 N=
Host plants in database: Compositae- Ambrosia trifida,Eupatorium sp., Xanthium pensylvanicum [Cocklebur]
Parasitoids and predators:
Observations and comments: Larvae rest on mid and secondary veins on the undersides of leaves and eat the leaf blade between veins.
Location of Vouchers: Tulane University
References: Covell 1975
Collected in New Orleans in the batture.