Caterpillars in Your Yard and Garden
Pickleworm
Snout and grass moths
Pickleworm caterpillars (Diaphania nitidalis) are present from summer to fall. They produce two to three generations per year.
Young caterpillars are light colored and covered with several black spots on each body segment. Full-grown caterpillars (0.75 to 1 inch long) lack the dark spots, and the body color can vary, depending on the host plant, from white to orange to green. Host plants are limited to cucurbits, such as cucumber, watermelon, muskmelon, and squash (summer and winter). Pickleworm caterpillars often cause serious damage.
About the family
Snout and grass moths are in the Crambidae family.
Contents
- Life cycle and key morphological features
- Achemon sphinx
- Armyworm
- Bagworm
- Banded woollybear
- Black cutworm
- Cabbage looper
- Catalpa sphinx
- Cecropia moth
- Clearwinged sphinx
- Crinkled flannel moth
- Dusty birch sawfly
- Eastern tent caterpillar
- Eight-spotted forester
- Elm sawfly
- European pine sawfly
- Fall webworm
- Garden webworm
- Gray furcula
- Green cloverworm
- Greenstriped mapleworm
- Hackberry emperor
- Hag moth
- Hickory horned devil
- Imperial moth
- Imported cabbageworm
- Io moth
- Linden looper
- Monarch caterpillar
- Monarch butterfly
- Orangedog
- Pale tussock moth
- Parsleyworm
- Pickleworm
- Polyphemus moth
- Poplar tentmaker
- Red-spotted purple caterpillars
- Roseslug
- Silverspotted skipper
- Smalleyed sphinx
- Spicebush swallowtail
- Spiny oak slug
- Stalk borer
- Stinging rose caterpillar
- Tiger swallowtail
- Tobacco hornworm and tomato hornworm
- Tomato fruitworm and corn earworm
- Unicorn caterpillar
- Variegated cutworm
- Variegated fritillary
- Viceroy
- Walnut caterpillar
- Whitelined sphinx
- Whitemarked tussock moth
- Yellow woollybear
- Yellownecked caterpillar
- Zebra swallowtail
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