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Bizarre caterpillar - Harrisimemna trisignata
Copyright © 2006 Ashley Bradford

Bizarre caterpillar - Harrisimemna trisignata
Herndon, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
August 26, 2006
The head-end is the end with things sticking up from it on hairs.

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Contributed by Ashley Bradford on 26 August, 2006 - 6:23pm
Last updated 26 August, 2006 - 8:46pm

The "things" are
the old dry head capsules shed by the earlier instars! See Wagner page 340
… john and jane balaban, 26 August, 2006 - 6:35pm login or register to post comments

 
I read that.
Pretty strange! Does "capsule" mean the head portion of the old shed? I'm going to go out and see if I can find this caterpillar today. Maybe it'll stay on that lilac and I'll be able to watch till it cocoons itself.
… Ashley Bradford, 27 August, 2006 - 1:51pm login or register to post comments

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