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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Moths » Noctuoidea » Tussock Moths (Lymantriidae) » Orgyiini » Orgyia » Fir Tussock Moth - Hodges#8313 (Orgyia detrita)
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Also orgyia detrita caterpillar? - Orgyia detrita
Copyright © 2007 John Hartgerink

Also orgyia detrita caterpillar? - Orgyia detrita
Baton Rouge - BREC Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, USA
April 24, 2007
In a discussion today, I learned the the red head, gray sides and orange side dots may suggest that this is orgyia detrita.
So far we just call all our "toothbrush caterpillars" tussock moth caterpillars and have not narrowed the ID further than that.

This has more gold color in it than some others.
(I just posted an example that may be a color variation of orgyia detrita caterpillars.)
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Contributed by John Hartgerink on 12 May, 2007 - 5:39pm
Last updated 12 May, 2007 - 9:56pm

Yes, I think so
- again, I'm going by the orange warts.
… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 12 May, 2007 - 7:23pm login or register to post comments

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