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caterpillar from southern CA desert - Hemileuca burnsi
Copyright © 2008 Joyce Gross

caterpillar from southern CA desert - Hemileuca burnsi
bottom of Short Canyon, Owen's Peak watershed, Kern County, California, USA
March 28, 2008
On Indigo Bush, Psorothamnus arborescens.
Different individual here:
Contributed by Joyce Gross on 11 January, 2009 - 5:13pm
Last updated 12 January, 2009 - 3:11pm

Moved
Moved from Hemileuca.
… Joyce Gross, 12 January, 2009 - 3:11pm

Nice!
It actually looks like it's in bloom.
… Carol Davis, 11 January, 2009 - 7:21pm

 
if you mean the plant is in bloom...
yes, it was -- beautiful purple flowers. But the one plant I photographed for my records had all the blooms eaten -- I guess the caterpillars like them! There were other indigo bushes nearby with fewer caterpillars on them that had blooms.
… Joyce Gross, 11 January, 2009 - 9:31pm

 
But don't touch that bloom!
Those spines are serious.
… john and jane balaban, 11 January, 2009 - 8:52pm

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