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Dried Fruit Moth
Vitula edmandsii
Vitula edmandsii, the American wax moth or dried fruit moth, is a species of snout moth in the genus Vitula. It is found in eastern North America. It was described by Packard in 1865 who mentions early records from the USA, specifically in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Bridgeport, Connecticut - the latter where the larvae were first found in bee's nests.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 233590.