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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Unidentified microlep immature stages
Photo#208108
Larva ID request
Copyright © 2008 Peter Cristofono

Larva ID request
Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
July 30, 2008
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Contributed by Peter Cristofono on 30 July, 2008 - 6:21pm
Last updated 29 March, 2014 - 3:28pm

Moved
Moved from Butterflies and Moths.
… john and jane balaban, 29 March, 2014 - 3:28pm login or register to post comments

More images
Only slightly similar
… John R. Maxwell, 30 July, 2008 - 9:18pm login or register to post comments

Don't know what it is
other than it is beautiful! Any indication of what plant it might have been eating? Any plants around this spot? It might be a leaf folder, so look for something with the ends of the leaves all curled up and webbed shut.
… john and jane balaban, 30 July, 2008 - 8:43pm login or register to post comments

 
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I saw it on a building, surrounded by a parking lot, with a variety of plants and weeds about 20 feet away. So I can't match it with a particular plant. Whenever I approached it with the camera, it lifted its head (?) in an apparent defensive move as seen in this photo.
… Peter Cristofono, 30 July, 2008 - 9:40pm login or register to post comments

 
Hi, I saw the same caterpi
Hi,

I saw the same caterpillar in the vineyards in Peconic Long Ilsand, New York. He was eating the vine leaf and kept looking for a whole in the wood to go into.
… flying_seahorse, 21 July, 2011 - 12:31pm login or register to post comments

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