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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Tiger and Lichen Moths (Arctiinae) » Tiger Moths (Arctiini) » Euchromiina » Cosmosoma » Scarlet-Bodied Wasp Moth - Hodges#8280 (Cosmosoma myrodora)
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Maybe another Cat of Cosmosoma myrodora - Scarlet-Bodied Wasp Moth - Hodges#8280 - Cosmosoma myrodora
Copyright © 2015 John Hartgerink

Maybe another Cat of Cosmosoma myrodora - Scarlet-Bodied Wasp Moth - Hodges#8280 - Cosmosoma myrodora
Baton Rouge, Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, USA
October 24, 2015
Size: About 1/2 inch
I think this might be a caterpillar of Cosmosoma myrodora - Scarlet-Bodied Wasp Moth - Hodges#8280.
It is eating a blossom of climbing hempweed, the proper host plant for this caterpillar.
Next, I will attach a photo of progress in eating this blossom.

This is a follow-up to a post I made on 10/10/15.
That post shows some close-ups of one of these cats.
I am the only one to reply to that post yet, so the ID has not been confirmed.
This cat was found at the same location.
(Click on this link)


I have also made a post of one of these cats eating a leaf of climbing hempweed.
(Click on this link)


John

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Maybe another Cat of Cosmosoma myrodora - Scarlet-Bodied Wasp Moth - Hodges#8280 - Cosmosoma myrodora Maybe another Cat of Cosmosoma myrodora - Scarlet-Bodied Wasp Moth - Hodges#8280 - Cosmosoma myrodora
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Contributed by John Hartgerink on 24 October, 2015 - 7:42pm
Last updated 26 October, 2015 - 8:51pm

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