Grote's buckmoth

Hemileuca grotei · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Saturniidae

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Grote's buckmoth
Photo: iNaturalist user, CC0

It lives in North America.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Grote's buck moth belongs to the family Saturniidae.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

This moth is found in North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

Its native range is North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 6 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Utah, Oklahoma.

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

Source: GBIF

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

Months it is reported in the US

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Source: GBIF

More photos

Grote's buckmoth photo 2
Photo: Sydney Dragon, CC BY
Grote's buckmoth photo 3
Photo: iNaturalist user, CC0
Grote's buckmoth photo 4
Photo: iNaturalist user, CC0
Grote's buckmoth photo 5
Photo: mattmsa, CC BY

Same family (Saturniidae)

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Sources

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

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

Text written 2026-10-26 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-26.

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