American snout
Libytheana carinenta

Wing span:  1 3/8 to 2 inches 

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Caterpillar hosts plants:
young leaves of hackberry, Celtis sp.
Adult food: 
rotting fruit, nectar of aster, Aster; dogbane, Apocynum; dogwood, Cornus; goldenrod, Solidago; sweetpepperbush, Clethra
Habitat:
forest clearings and edges, thorn scrub, brushy fields, roadsides

 

Notes: 
males patrol for females, adults perch on branches and imitate dead leaves, females lay eggs in small groups on host leaves, hibernates as adults, puddles