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caterpillar - Chloridea virescens

caterpillar - Chloridea virescens
Overland Park, Johnson County, Kansas, USA
October 17, 2013
Size: about 27 mm
I found these caterpillars in large numbers feeding and burrowing into the seed pods of velvetleaf. I think they are Helicoverpa zea.


Can you post how you know that this is H. zea
rather than Heliothis virescens? The dark bands on A1 and A2 seem to fit the description of virescens in Owlets, pg 346

 

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