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Caterpillar ID request - Condica

Fred and Idah Schultz Preserve, Hillsborough County, Florida, USA
November 7, 2020

On Jack-in-the-bush, Chromolaena odorata (Asteraceae)

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Caterpillar ID request - Condica

Caterpillar ID request - Condica

Caterpillar ID request - Condica

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Contributed by John Lampkin on 8 November, 2020 - 3:55pm
Last updated 30 December, 2021 - 9:22pm

The flowers don't look quite right

for Chromolaena odorata. We don't know that plant, but these flower heads seem much longer.

… john and jane balaban, 8 November, 2020 - 5:53pm

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Trust me...

..that is Chromolaena odorata. Compare to these imagaes in the Florida Plant Atlas https://florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/Plant.aspx?id=2785
In particular image 6.
This is one spectacular plant stand with a diameter of ~ 4 meters. The only look-alike is the exotic Praxelis clematidea which has similar odiferous leaves but does not share this extravagant lifestyle and has a different phyllaries and bloom periods. I've documented over 20 species of lepidoptera on this one stand over the past couple of years. I can't wait to see it this time next year if we don't get a freeze!

… John Lampkin, 8 November, 2020 - 7:00pm

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Our first thought was Condica albigera

but we think that has only been seen in Texas

But there are plenty of Condica for which we have no caterpillar images. Unfortunately most of those, as in Condica cupentia, don't have hostplant species listed.
Will dig around and see if we can find anything.

… john and jane balaban, 8 November, 2020 - 5:50pm

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Wow

Those posterior stripes certainly point that direction. And it was found on Eupatorium, another plant in the asteraceae. This preserve borders a commercial dock for Mosaic fertilizer company. Barges and ships go back and forth to Texas regularly. Species "that have no business being here" show up from time to time.
So who knows. Thank you!

… John Lampkin, 8 November, 2020 - 7:22pm

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