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caterpillar on birch - Lithophane innominata
Copyright © 2010 tom murray

caterpillar on birch - Lithophane innominata
Topsham, Orange County, Vermont, USA
June 22, 2010

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Contributed by tom murray on 24 June, 2010 - 10:24pm
Last updated 12 September, 2010 - 9:54am

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… tom murray, 12 September, 2010 - 9:54am login or register to post comments

Host plant?
It looks like the one I found on oak.
Mine was sharing the leaves with some sawfly larvae which kept disappearing. I wonder if this caterpillar ate some of the larvae; Lithohane are known to be carnivorous.
Are you raising this one by any chance? Unfortunately I lost mine so I will never see the adult and it would be most interesting to confirm the ID.
… Beatriz Moisset, 25 June, 2010 - 6:28am login or register to post comments

 
This was on cherry
I'll try to rear it, and if I get lucky, we might find out what it is.
… tom murray, 25 June, 2010 - 12:42pm login or register to post comments

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