Barrens Carpet

Apodrepanulatrix liberaria · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Geometridae

Also called: New Jersey Tea Inchworm

No source yet on danger. We have no source yet on whether it bites, stings or damages anything.
Barrens Carpet
Photo: Rose Zappa, CC BY

The Barrens Carpet moth has a wingspan of about 25 to 35 millimetres. It occurs from the far south of Quebec and southern Ontario down to northern Florida and Mississippi. Its caterpillars feed on the plant Ceanothus americanus.

Source: Wikipedia

Size

Wingspan ranges from 25 mm to 35 mm.

Source: Wikipedia

What it eats

Larvae eat Ceanothus americanus.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 15 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Massachusetts, New York, Michigan, Connecticut, Minnesota, Georgia, Mississippi, New Hampshire.

Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.

Source: GBIF

Status: native in North America; native in United States; native in Canada. Source: iNaturalist

Months it is reported in the US

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Source: GBIF

Same family (Geometridae)

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Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apodrepanulatrix_liberaria

Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia

Text written 2026-10-27 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-27.

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