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Does anybody know about this little orange caterpillar with tufts? - Parasa chloris
Copyright © 2008 Allan F. Wilson

Does anybody know about this little orange caterpillar with tufts? - Parasa chloris
Simsbury, CT USA, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
September 8, 2008
Size: About 1 cm
Since I took the photo the little guy has curled into a disk that is partly wrapped into the edge of the leaf.
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Contributed by Allan F. Wilson on 9 September, 2008 - 12:48am

That's neat!
I reared one of these, and it looked just like this before it cocooned itself up. (I would just say "pupated," but Wagner's book says that all slug caterpillars pass "the winter as a prepupa in a dense spherical cocoon of brown silk." So I guess that means it's not technically a pupa.)
… Carmen Champagne, 16 November, 2008 - 3:56pm login or register to post comments

Limacodid
Parasa chloris
… Dennis Profant, 9 September, 2008 - 1:16am login or register to post comments

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