Humped Green Fruitworm - Cooperative Extension: Cranberries - University of Maine Cooperative Extension

Also called Copper Underwing Order: Lepidoptera || Family: Noctuidae Scientific Name: Amphipyra pyramidoides (Guenée)

: A Humped Green Fruitworm (note the obvious hump on its hind end) (photographed in Maine in July)

: Humped Green Fruitworm (mature larva)

: Humped Green Fruitworm (adult/moth stage)

Notes: This pest–with a very prominent hump (see photos)–has an affinity for apples, but in addition to cranberry, it has also been collected from plum, peach, black cherry, flowering almond, and crab apple, as well as on