What does mint-loving pyrausta eat?

Its larvae eat the rhizomes and leaves of plants.

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Species of Pyrausta

Straw-barred pearl Mint moth Shasta Pyrausta Moth Volupial pyrausta moth Orange mint moth Raspberry pyrausta moth Coffee-loving pyrausta moth Common crimson and gold Mint-loving pyrausta Southern purple mint moth Bicolored pyrausta moth Inornate pyrausta moth

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Scientific Classification

Phylum

Arthropods

Class

Bugs

Order

Moths and butterflies

Family

Crambid snout moths

Genus

Pyrausta

Species

Mint-loving pyrausta (Pyrausta acrionalis)

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