Missouri Department of Conservation Field Guide

Primary source

Missouri Department of Conservation

A state wildlife agency field guide with staff-written species accounts covering description, similar species, size, habitat, food, life cycle, and ecosystem connections.

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What you'll find here

Staff-written identification detail

Larval and adult food

Life-cycle and brood timing

Ecosystem relationships

Specific data we draw from it: species URL, identification, life cycle, larval food, adult food.

Good to know

Agency species accounts. Adopted 2026-08-03 as the watchable cited-content source for Lepidoptera, where BAMONA cannot be hashed. Its accounts are Missouri-scoped, so use it for identification, food, and life history rather than continental range.

How to cite this source

Cite the specific MDC species page used. Do NOT cite it for continental range - the accounts are written for Missouri, so range claims belong to a continental source.

License

MDC explicitly permits linking and citation but NOT reproduction of their text without written permission. Plotwright stores only a sha256 of the cited region and never the page text; MDC prose must never be pasted into catalog copy.

Caution

Missouri-scoped: habitat and status sections describe the state, not the species range. URL keys are common-name slugs and some carry an appended alias, so resolve the canonical URL rather than deriving it.

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