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Macaria ribearia

Macaria ribearia seems like the best match. There are quite a few photos of the caterpillars on iNaturalist.

… Ilona L., 7 April, 2023 - 7:49pm

Moved

Moved from Speranza.

… Steve Nanz, 16 June, 2018 - 3:10am

Moved

Moved from Butterflies and Moths.

… john and jane balaban, 18 December, 2011 - 1:08pm

MPG has another similar

looking one under andersoni?? Maybe the best we can do right now is genus??

… john and jane balaban, 18 December, 2011 - 11:04am

That's fine. This will give me something to search for next year.

… Ilona L., 18 December, 2011 - 12:58pm

What do you think of Speranza argillacearia

… john and jane balaban, 12 December, 2011 - 8:10pm

caterpillar

The marking that I can see on the face seems to match. There are no blueberry bushes around here but there are a lot of gooseberry bushes. Of course I don't remember where I found the caterpillar:( but now that I know about the relation to gooseberries I can make another search next spring.

… Ilona L., 12 December, 2011 - 10:21pm

ok,

we'll keep searching for an ID

… john and jane balaban, 12 December, 2011 - 8:37am

caterpillar

Found a photo in (1) which looks like a close match -- Macaria(Itame)ribearia -- Currant Spanworm moth. Just got this book from the library today. It has quite a good collection of photos of moths and caterpillars from Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan and Ontario. Some of the scientific names are not quite up-to-date, however.

… Ilona L., 15 December, 2011 - 7:28pm

That would make sense, since both of these were found

on Ribes, but Wagner shows the current spanworm as having larger spots. Maybe he has the images reversed??

… john and jane balaban, 15 December, 2011 - 7:44pm

Any other images where we can see the head better

or the abdominal prolegs? Is that a dorsal yellow line, or is the bright white line dorsal? If two prolegs, then Mike Quinn has a Geometrid that is somewhat similar.

… john and jane balaban, 11 December, 2011 - 9:48pm

only one photo

This was the only photo I had of the caterpillar.

… Ilona L., 11 December, 2011 - 11:27pm