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Photo#601763
caterpillar - Xanthotype

caterpillar - Xanthotype
Cross Plains, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA
August 24, 2011
Caterpillar found and fed on Burdock leaves for several days and then released.

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This strikes us as the color pattern of the Euchlaena,
though we couldn't begin to say which one. See if you get the same feeling when you look at Euchlaena

 
caterpillar
It may be that this caterpillar was still young, but it doesn't have any of the bumps and knobs that the other Euchlaena caterpillars display on the available photographs.

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