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Bird Poop Caterpillar ? - Antaeotricha - male - female
Copyright © 2016 Carolyn Waddell

Bird Poop Caterpillar ? - Antaeotricha - Male Female
Three Mile Bay, White Lake, Lanark, Ontario, Canada
May 30, 2016
Size: approx 3 cm
We have white admiral butterflies, and so I wonder if this might be a WA caterpillar.
Contributed by Carolyn Waddell on 28 July, 2016 - 9:24am
Last updated 26 June, 2020 - 10:52am

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… A. Hendrickson, 12 August, 2016 - 1:40pm

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… john and jane balaban, 11 August, 2016 - 10:39am

Antaeotricha
This is a photo of two mating adults of one of the bird-dropping mimic spp. of Antaeotricha (Depressariidae).
… Terry Harrison, 28 July, 2016 - 9:26am

 
Thank you
I was way off.
… Carolyn Waddell, 28 July, 2016 - 1:01pm

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