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Caterpillar - Datana major
Copyright © 2006 Jacques Doucet

Caterpillar - Datana major
Maringouin, Iberville Parish, Louisiana, USA
August 30, 2006
Note to Phillip Chaon and Hanna M.Mason -- The caterpillars you generously identified for me a few days ago are making a change. I thought you might like to see it. i kept 5 of the little beasts and introduced the others to a Lyonia lucida bush (Heath family) -- they didn't miss a beat, just kept on eating. Jacques
Contributed by Jacques Doucet on 30 August, 2006 - 3:54pm
Last updated 10 November, 2008 - 5:11pm

Moved
Moved from Datana.
… john and jane balaban, 10 November, 2008 - 5:11pm

Great!
Looks like the stripes they had before (below) have become spots!

… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 30 August, 2006 - 4:38pm

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