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Red And Green Caterpillar - Lochmaeus manteo
Copyright © 2008 Paul Celano

Red And Green Caterpillar - Lochmaeus manteo
Brighton, Livingston County, Michigan, USA
July 30, 2008
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Contributed by Paul Celano on 30 July, 2008 - 12:45pm
Last updated 31 July, 2008 - 3:03pm

When they get ready to pupate and get
all red like this, we lose all sense of their original color pattern. We might suggest Lochmaeus manteo with the narrow parallel stripes behind the head and three stripes down the abdomen, the lateral ones bending down to the anal prolegs, but we could just as easil;y be miles off! Wagner pg 304.
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