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caterpillar cocoon - Hyphantria cunea
Copyright © 2011 Molly Jacobson

caterpillar cocoon - Hyphantria cunea
Beaver Brook Association, Hollis, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
December 31, 2010
I saw this old tattered cocoon/tent thing on the ground beneath a pine tree. It isn't made of pine needles, so it must've blown in from somewhere. There were no live caterpillars, but tons and tons of droppings. I saw some small cocoons (less than 1 cm) and a few decapitated bodies. Any idea on which kind of caterpillar?

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Contributed by Molly Jacobson on 3 January, 2011 - 3:19pm
Last updated 6 January, 2011 - 2:08pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Molly Jacobson, 6 January, 2011 - 2:08pm login or register to post comments

Fall webworms parasitized by Meteorus wasps
The cocoon in your second photo belongs to Meteorus (Braconidae). I have seen these hanging from fall webworm webs before, and theirs are the most common and conspicuous caterpillar webs in New England (eastern tent caterpillars are very common too, but their tents don't have leaves in them and don't really blow around since they're made in the crotches of branches). The caterpillar in the third photo looks reasonable for fall webworm to me.
… Charley Eiseman, 3 January, 2011 - 6:46pm login or register to post comments

 
so
should i move the second photo to the Meteorus page and the rest to the Fall Webworm page?
… Molly Jacobson, 4 January, 2011 - 10:29am login or register to post comments

 
Makes sense
to me.
… Charley Eiseman, 4 January, 2011 - 5:50pm login or register to post comments

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