Nantucket Lepidoptera
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Family:
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Arctiidae
Drepanidae
Geometridae
Lasiocampidae
Lymantriidae
Mimallonidae
Noctuidae
Notodontidae
Saturniidae
Sphingidae
Thyatiridae
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Primary Habitats:
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acid open canopy wetlands
bogs
Bogs / Heathlands
Coastal heathland containing larval hostplant
Deciduous Woodlands
Dune fields
Early successional
Ericaceous swamps
Especially recently burned
Gardens with nectar sources
General
Grassland and heathland
Mixed deciduous woodland
Mixed scrub oak thicket/healthland
Partial canopy pitch pine/scrub oak thicket
red maple swamp
Sandplain Grassland
Scrub oak thicket
Short scrub oak thicket
Shrubland
Shrubland borders
Shrubland, especially in conjunction with grape
Tall scrub oak thicket
urban/suburban shade trees
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Exemplary Sites:
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147 Polpis Rd.
adjacent to Mellon property
Airport
Almanac Pond area
Bamboo Forest
Barnard Valley
Clark Cove
Coskata Woods
Donut Bog
Head of the Plains
Head of Tom Nevers swamp
Hidden Forest
Hummock Pond west head
Loring Property
Madequecham Valley
Madequecham Valley near airport
Maria Mitchell office
MAS/TNC border
Mass Audubon property - Polpis
Miacomet west
Middle Moors
Milestone Road
Mill Pond
Mioxes Pond
Nantucket State Forest
NCF land south of Milestone Rd.
New Road
none yet found
off Rugged Road
off Scotts Way
Polpis
Ram Pasture
Russell's Way
Sanford Farm
Sesachacha Pond
Shawkemo Hills
Smooth Hummocks
Squam Farm
Squam Farm Pond
Squam Swamp
Squam Swamp uplands
Taupawshas Swamp
Tom Nevers Swamp
Tuckernuck
UMass Boston Nantucket Field Station
Wannacomet
Washing Pond
Windswept Bog
Larval Hostplants:
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alder
American Hazelnut
American holly
apple
ash
aspen
aster
azalea
barberry
bayberry
Beach Plum
beaked hazelnut
bearberry
beech
Birch
Black Cherry
black huckleberry
black locust
black oak
Blackberry
blueberry
bracken fern
buckwheat family
bunchberry
bur-reed
buttonbush
cattail
cherry
Chinquapin Oak
cinnamon fern
clover
common milkweed
common saltwort
composites
cranberry
dandilion
dead leaves
detritophagous on oak
dock/sorrel
Dogbane
Ericaceae
evening primrose
ferns
freshwater cordgrass
fungi
gayfeather
geranium
Goat's Rue
goldenrod
Grape
grasses
grasses & sedges
greenbrier
hawthorn
hibiscus family
hickory
highbush blueberry
holly
honeysuckle
inkberry
iris
joe-pye-weed
juniper
larch
laurel
legumes
lichens
lilac
locust
Lowbush Blueberry
maleberry
maple
milkweed
nicotiana
nightshade
oak
oak (dead leaves & acorns)
pepper
pine
pitch pine
plantain
poison ivy
polyphagous
polyphagous
polyphagous on conifers
polyphagous on deciduous trees
polyphagous on deciduous trees and shrubs
polyphagous on forbs
polyphagous on forbs and low woody plants
polyphagous on low forbs and grasses
polyphagous on trees
polyphagous, esp. dead leaves
poplar
porcelain-berry
potato
privet
ragweed
red cedar
red maple
rose
rose/cherry family
sabatia
salt hay
sandwort
sassafras
Scrub Oak
seaside goldenrod
sedges
sensitive fern
Serviceberry
Shadbush
smartweed/jointweed
sorrel
sorrel/dock
St. Johnswort
sumac
sundew
swamp andles
swamp loosestrife
sweet fern
sweet gale
sweet pepperbush
switchgrass
sycamore
tomato
tupelo
Viburnum
Virginia chain fern
Virginia creeper
Water-willow
white oak
white pine
whorled loosestrife
wild indigo
willow
winged sumac
witch hazel
wood-sorrel
yarrow
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Found By:
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Kimball
Mello
Kimball & Mello