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Black Caterpillar with White Spots on Coralbead Vine
Copyright © 2009 John Hartgerink

Black Caterpillar with White Spots on Coralbead Vine
Baton Rouge - BREC Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, USA
July 31, 2009
Size: about 1.5 inch
Found sandwiched between two leaves that had to be pried apart because the were stuck together by web.
Another individual was in a rolled up leaf, stuck together by web.

Feeding on leaves of a vine called:
Carolina Moonseed, Carolina Snailseed, Coralbead
Cocculus carolinus

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Contributed by John Hartgerink on 1 August, 2009 - 10:48am
Last updated 4 November, 2009 - 8:48pm

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