Order: Lepidoptera || Family: Geométridae (spanworms, measuringworms, geometers or inchworms — all synonymous terms); A very large family with roughly 1400 species in the US and Canada.
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Horned Spanworm (also called Filament Bearer), Nematocampa resistaria
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Horned Spanworm (Filament Bearer) (Washington County, Maine; 6/24/2004)
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Horned Spanworm Moth (Nematocampa resistaria) (shown with the empty pupa from which it emerged) (Washington County, Maine; 9/29/2008)
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Brown spanworm larvae beside a cranberry upright upon which they were previously feeding.
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A Green Spanworm
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Closer view of a Green Spanworm
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A pair of Green Spanworms – photographed in early July of 2009
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A Chainspotted Geometer (also called Chain-dotted Geometer, Cingilia catenaria (photographed mid-July in Maine)
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a Chainspotted Geometer larva, feeding on a cranberry upright, and photographed in July (in Maine)
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Another example of a Chainspotted/Chain-dotted Geometer
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Another photo of a Chainspotted Geometer, ‘looping,’; photographed in July (in Maine)
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A Chainspotted Geometer Moth (photographed in mid-September, in Maine)
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A species of spanworm (possibly Big Cranberry Spanworm)
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Possibly a ‘Big Cranberry Spanworm’ or similar species (they are masters of camouflage; the portion angled up and closest to the dime is the spanworm) (Photographed 7/10/2003)
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A spanworm larva (no identification as yet), showing the classic ‘looping’ pattern of locomotion; photographed mid-June in Maine
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Another example of a spanworm larva (no identification as yet)
Spanworms (Family Geométridae), many of which will feed on cranberry, make up the second largest family of Lepidoptera in eastern forests. Many of them
