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Fuzzy walnut caterpillar instars on black walnut tree - Datana integerrima
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Fuzzy walnut caterpillar instars on black walnut tree - Datana integerrima
NE Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA
August 11, 2016
These gregarious (and voracious) caterpillars were found on a black walnut (/Juglans nigra/) tree in close proximity to a cluster of earlier instars. Not sure what the greenish liquid blob is at the head end of one of the caterpillars in the foreground -- ejection of material being chewed as part of defensive reaction?

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Fuzzy walnut caterpillar instars on black walnut tree - Datana integerrima Walnut caterpillars in defensive display - Datana integerrima
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Contributed by MosquitoBait on 25 August, 2016 - 2:20am

Earlier instars on same tree
The caterpillars pictured above were found on the same tree as a cluster of earlier instars, within ~1m:
… MosquitoBait, 25 August, 2016 - 2:28am login or register to post comments

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