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Green fuzzy caterpillar with black spikes and red head - Acronicta rubricoma
Copyright © 2011 Bodeem

Green fuzzy caterpillar with black spikes and red head - Acronicta rubricoma
Fisherville, Spencer County, Kentucky, USA
August 31, 2011
Size: 2 inches

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Green fuzzy caterpillar with black spikes and red head - Acronicta rubricoma Green fuzzy caterpillar with black spikes and red head - Acronicta rubricoma
Contributed by Bodeem on 31 August, 2011 - 11:49am
Last updated 5 January, 2012 - 11:48am

Moved
Moved from Cottonwood Dagger Moth. Wagner's new book does say that the long tufts on rubricoma can be all black while lepusculina does not have a tuft on A2
… john and jane balaban, 5 January, 2012 - 11:48am

Moved
Moved from Dagger Moths.
… john and jane balaban, 4 January, 2012 - 6:41pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… john and jane balaban, 25 September, 2011 - 10:29am

Most of the lepusculina that we have seen images of
have one less dorsal tuft and much longer hair, but it is certainly possible that an earlier instar looks this way.
… john and jane balaban, 1 September, 2011 - 8:24pm

Acronicta lepusculina?
I'm not sure, but this one looks pretty close:


http://bugguide.net/node/view/506716/bgimage
… Bill Myers, 1 September, 2011 - 3:32am

looks to be one of the Acronicta
such as

but we don't know which one
… john and jane balaban, 31 August, 2011 - 11:35pm

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