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Just sharing - Lymantria dispar - female

Just sharing - Lymantria dispar - Female
Franklin, Oakland County, Michigan, USA
August 1, 2009
Here's the lovely, fuzzy lady-in-waiting...she's just packed with eggs - so heavy she can't fly. It's such a shame that they're considered pests and so destructive.

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The biggest shame however is that they were ever introduced... their introduction has brought up other destructive ways of controlling these moths in turn killing hundreds of other nondestructive species.

 
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What you're doing sounds very interesting. I've had very poor to no luck in even finding caterpillers. Some of them are as beautiful and exotic as the adult or even more so.

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