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Harvester caterpillar? - Feniseca tarquinius

Harvester caterpillar? - Feniseca tarquinius
Athens/ State Botanical Garden of Georgia, Clarke County, Georgia, USA
September 12, 2008
Size: about 2 cm
This is a Lycaenid caterpillar of some sort, and I'm thinking it could be a Harvester. Wagner says that they sometimes have a "yellow or orange spot in center of each of the teeth that makes up the subdorsal stripe." I saw adults at this location in August, and it was close to several woolly aphid-covered Beech trees. (It was crawling on the ground, so no host plant info.)

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