Economically Important and Common Moths

Economically Important and Common Moths

Achemon sphinx	Fall webworm	Saltmarsh caterpillar
Ailanthus webworm	Filbertworm	Smeared dagger moth
Alfalfa looper	Flax bollworm	Southwestern pine tip moth
Alfalfa webworm	Forage looper	Speckled green fruitworm
American dagger moth	Forest tent caterpillar	Spotted tussock moth
Angoumois grain moth	Four-horned caterpillar	Spring cankerworm
Army cutworm	Fruit tree leafroller	Spruce budworm
Armyworm	Garden webworm	Spruce needleminer
Artichoke plume moth	Glassy cutworm	Spurge hawkmoth
Ash borer	Grape leafroller	Squash vine borer
Banded sunflower moth	Grape plume moth	Stalk borer
Beet webworm	Great ash sphinx	Striped cutworm
Beet armyworm	Greater wax moth	Sunflower bud moth
Bertha armyworm	Green cloverworm	Sunflower moth
Bidens borer	Greenhouse leaftier	Sweetclover root borer
Blackberry skeletonizer	Hog sphinx	Three-lined leafroller
Black army-cutworm	Hop looper	Tobacco budworm
Black cutworm	Indian meal moth	Tobacco hornworm
Black witch	Io moth	Tomato fruitworm
Bollworm	Jack pine budworm	Tomato hornworm
Boxelder leaf miner	Lappet moth	Tufted apple bud moth
Boxelder twig borer	Large aspen tortrix	Ugly-nest caterpillar
Bristly cutworm	Leaf crumpler	Unicorn caterpillar
Bronzed cutworm	Lesser peach tree borer	Vagabond sod webworm
Cabbage looper	Lilac borer	Variable oakleaf caterpillar
Carpenterworm	Linden looper	Variegated cutworm
Carpet moth	Lined stalk borer	Verbena bud moth
Case-making cloths moth	Locust tree borer	Virginia creeper sphinx
Cecropia moth	Locust twig borer	Walnut caterpillar
Celery leaftier	Luna moth	Walnut sphinx
Celery looper	Meal moth	Webbing clothes moth
Chain-spotted geometer	Mediterranean flour moth	Webbing cone worm
Chickweed geometer	Mourning glory leafminer	W[ell]-marked cutworm
Clover cutworm	Nantucket pine tip moth	Western bean cutworm
Clover hayworm	Oak leafroller	Western pine tip moth
Clover head caterpillar	Oak leaftier	Western spruce budworm
Clover looper	Oblique-banded leafroller	Rocky Mt. W-marked cutworm
Codling moth	Orange-humped mapleworm	Western tent caterpillar
Columbine borer	Orange mint moth	Wheat head armyworm
Corn earworm	Pale tussock moth	White cutworm
Cotton leafworm	Pale western cutworm	White-lined sphinx
Cottonwood dagger moth	Palmerworm	White-marked tussock moth
Cottonwood twig borer	Pandora moth	Woollybear
Cranberry girdler	Pecan leaf casebearer	Yellow-necked caterpillar
Currant borer	Pepper-and-salt moth	Yellow-striped armyworm
Currant spanworm	Pine needle sheathminer	Yellow woollybear
Dark-sided cutworm	Polyphemus moth	Zebra caterpillar
Diamondback moth	Poplar tentmaker	Zimmerman pine moth
Eastern tent caterpillar	Ragweed borer
Eight-spotted forester moth	Red-backed cutworm
Elm spanworm	Red-banded leafroller
Elm sphinx	Red-humped caterpillar
European corn borer	Rice stalk borer
Fall cankerworm	Saddled prominent

Last updated: 04/14/09

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research specialist, NDSU
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