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Leaf Devouring Catterpillar? Found in SW Florida - Agrius cingulata
Copyright © 2007 cheverie00

Leaf Devouring Catterpillar? Found in SW Florida - Agrius cingulata
Fort Myers, eating Leaves off my moonlight Primrose Bush at my home, Lee County, Florida, USA
September 12, 2007
Size: 4inch longx5/8 inch wide
we found 12 of these things devouring our moonlight primrose bushes, eating just the leaves only,they hav a diamond design along thier length similar to a rattlesnke, brown and tan with black dots on the point of the diamond. they also have what appears to be a barb that is hard and rigid that sticks up and curls back on the top toward the back of this thing.

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Contributed by cheverie00 on 13 September, 2007 - 12:54am
Last updated 20 July, 2008 - 8:51pm

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