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Hemileuca maia (Buck moth)

Synonyms: Hemileuca lintneri; Hemileuca proserpina

Wikipedia Abstract

The buck moth (Hemileuca maia) is a common insect found in oak forests, stretching in the United States from the southeast to the northeast and as far west as Texas and Kansas. The larvae typically emerge in a single generation in the spring. The larvae are covered in hollow spines that are attached to a poison sac. The poison can cause symptoms ranging from itching and burning sensations to nausea.
View Wikipedia Record: Hemileuca maia

Infraspecies

Hemileuca maia maia
Hemileuca maia peigleri

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  2.441 inches (.062 m)

Prey / Diet

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Compsilura concinnata (Tachina fly)[3]
Lespesia aletiae[3]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Buck moth Hemileuca maia (Drury), Clare Scott and Phillip E. Kaufman, University of Florida, November 2009
♦ 2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0