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Green caterpillar - Nadata gibbosa
Copyright © 2009 Charley Eiseman

Green caterpillar - Nadata gibbosa
Pelham, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
August 4, 2004
Found crawling on my driveway. I collected it and it started to spin a cocoon, but then it died and four tachinids emerged.

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Green caterpillar - Nadata gibbosa Tachinid from green caterpillar - Compsilura concinnata Tachinid from white-dotted prominent caterpillar - Compsilura concinnata Tachinid from white-dotted prominent caterpillar - Compsilura concinnata
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 20 August, 2009 - 9:46pm
Last updated 21 August, 2009 - 6:38pm

Moved
Moved from Butterflies and Moths.
… Charley Eiseman, 21 August, 2009 - 6:38pm

Notodontidae
Looks like Nadata gibbosa
… john and jane balaban, 21 August, 2009 - 5:56pm

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