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Forest resources
Trees, insects and diseases of Canada's forests
Insects
Diet and feeding behaviour
Feeding behaviour
Phytophagous > Phyllophagous > Free-living defoliator
Feeds on and moves about freely on foliage.
Archips tsugana
Argyrotaenia dorsalana
Caripeta aequaliaria
Cosmia elisae
Digrammia setonana
Digrammia triviata
Egira hiemalis
Egira simplex
Enypia venata
Enypia griseata
Eulithis destinata
Eupithecia interruptofasciata
Eupithecia subfuscata
Eupithecia longipalpata
Eupithecia niphadophilata
Eupithecia olivacea
Eupithecia placidata
Eupithecia unicolor
Eupithecia ornata
Feralia comstocki
Gabriola dyari
Glena nigricaria
Hydriomena speciosata
Hydriomena irata
Lithophane atara
Lithophane itata
Macaria adonis
Neodiprion mundus
Nepytia umbrosaria nigrovenaria
Pero behrensaria
Pristiphora leechi
Promylea lunigerella
Protoboarmia porcelaria
Sabulodes edwardsata
Stenoporpia pulmonaria satisfacta
Synaxis pallulata
Syndemis afflictana
Syngrapha celsa
Thallophaga hyperborea
Thera otisi
Tolype dayi
Xestia mustelina
Xestia praevia
Zeiraphera vancouverana
Balsam fir sawfly
Barry’s hairstreak
Birch sawfly
Brownlined looper
Bruce spanworm
Ceanothus silk moth
Common emerald
Dioryctria moth
Douglas-fir bud moth
Douglas-fir tussock moth
European pine sawfly
European spruce sawfly
Fall cankerworm
Filament bearer
Fir needle inchworm
Forest tent caterpillar
Gelechiid moth
Gray spruce looper
Great brocade
Greenheaded spruce sawfly
Green larch looper
Greenstriped forest looper
Greenstriped mapleworm
Green velvet looper
Gypsy moth
Hemlock looper
Hemlock sawfly
Introduced pine sawfly
Larch pug moth
Larch sawfly
Lesser maple spanworm
Mourningcloak butterfly or spiny elm caterpillar
Packard’s gridle moth
Pero moth
Phantom hemlock looper
Pine measuringworm moth
Pine tussock moth
Pine white
Pine zale
Purplestriped shootworm
Red-barred tortrix
Redheaded pine sawfly
Redlined conifer caterpillar
Red pine sawfly
Rosner’s hairstreak
Saddleback looper
Saddled prominent
Satin moth
Silverspotted tiger moth
Small pine looper
Speckled green fruitworm
Spring cankerworm
Spruce climbing cutworm
Spruce fir looper
Spruce needleworm, Paler dolichomia moth
Spruce tip moth; redstriped needleworm
Swaine jack pine sawfly
Threelined larch sawfly
Twolined larch sawfly
Western blackheaded budworm
Western cedar borer
Western false hemlock looper
Western hemlock looper
Western larch sawfly
Western oak looper
Western pine elfin
Western spruce budworm
Whitelined looper
Whitemarked tussock moth
White slaut
Whitetriangle leafroller
Yellowheaded spruce sawfly
Yellowlined forest looper
Abagrotis glenni
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