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Hemileuca (Buck Moth) Catapillar? - Hemileuca maia

Hemileuca (Buck Moth) Catapillar? - Hemileuca maia
Ruther Glen, Caroline County, Virginia, USA
June 13, 2007
Size: 2"
I could hear him chewing and crunching down on a dead oak leaf from 20 yards away

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Yes
I noticed that it had a lot of similarities to the Buck Moth Catapillar and that whole genus of Moths, but is there a way to nail it down to a species from this photo?

 
Reading Wagner, pg 239
We would say Hemileuca maia, and we'll move it there.

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