Strange "beetle" identified - actually a moth

> The  insect in question is the Ailanthus Webworm Moth -
> Atteva  punctella.
> 
> 
> Well, no wonder I see them so often. The woods around me are full of
> Ailanthus. This time of year hardly a day passes that I don't pull one out of
> a  
> flower bed.
> Bill Lee, SW OHio


Too bad they don't carry some viral disease, caught only by and fatal only
to Ailanthus.

Don Martinson
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
l*@wi.rr.com

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