2 insects containing the letter X — each with origin, classification, and notes.
Below are insects that contain the letter X anywhere in the name. Each of the 2 insects below opens to a full profile.
| Tortrix Moth | Xerces Blue |
Small, bell-shaped moths whose caterpillars are among the most damaging to gardens and orchards — they roll leaves into shelters bound with silk and eat the enclosed tissue; the codling moth (apple's worst enemy) and the light brown apple moth are tortrix moths, and European vine moth damages grapevines worldwide.
A small blue butterfly of California's San Francisco peninsula — extinct since the 1940s, the first North American butterfly species lost to habitat destruction, and the namesake of the Xerces Society for invertebrate conservation.
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