Today’s featured caterpillar is the Noctuid, Ogdoconta cinereola, or “common pinkband groundling.” This one was found in early July at St. Francois State Park on wingstem (Verbesina).
2024 Caterpillar Season – Common Pinkband Groundling
"What a thousand acres of Silphiums looked like when they tickled the bellies of the buffalo is a question never again to be answered, and perhaps not even asked." -Aldo Leopold
A Thousand Acres of Silphiums 