brown, often with a purplish cast. Females have a wingspread of about 57 mm, 
males are considerably smaller. The forewings are thinner, less speckled, and more 
transparent beyond the discal dot than those of the orangestriped oakworm or the 
spiny oakworm. Full-grown larvae are about 50 mm long. The body is greenish 
gray with two dorsolateral, rose-colored stripes and a similarly colored stripe along 
each side. The entire body is covered with minute, white granules. Two spines on 
the second thoracic segment are slightly curved and are conspicuously longer than 
the others. Two similar species, A. pellucida (J. E. Smith) and A. discolor Fer- 
guson, have two generations per year and occur on oaks throughout the Southeast 
and in Texas and Oklahoma, respectively. 
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Figure 84.—Larva of Anisota peig/eri found on chestnut 
in North Carolina. 
Courtesy Duke Univ. Sch. For. 
Figure 85.—Adult of the pinkstriped 
oakworm, Anisota virginiensis. 
The greenstriped mapleworm, Dryocampa rubicunda (F.), 1s found throughout 
most of the Eastern United States and in adjacent areas of Canada. Its preferred 
hosts are maples, but it also feeds on various oaks and boxelder, especially where 
they are growing in mixture with maple. Populations may become heavy enough to 
cause serious defoliation anywhere within its range, but this is most likely to occur 
in the South. The moth (fig. 86A) has a woolly body and a wingspread of 37 to 50 
mm. The body is yellow on top and rose-pink beneath. The forewing is rose-pink 
on the inner and outer borders with a yellow band between. The hindwings are 
either pure yellow, or yellow with rose-pink streaks. Pale, whitish forms are also 
known. Full-grown larvae (fig. 86B) have cherry-red heads, pale yellow-green 
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