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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Noctuini » Noctuina » Yellow Underwings (Noctua) » Large Yellow Underwing - Hodges#11003.1 (Noctua pronuba)
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Christmas eve caterpillar (DCP46) - Noctua pronuba
Copyright © 2006 Fred Siskind

Christmas eve caterpillar (DCP46) - Noctua pronuba
McLean, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
December 24, 2006
Size: 1 inch
Found this unknown caterpillar on my driveway the day before Christmas. Unseasonably warm weather; latest I've ever seen a caterpillar in this area. No leaves on trees so it must have been feeding on something in the lawn. Approx 1 inch in length.
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Contributed by Fred Siskind on 25 December, 2006 - 2:33pm
Last updated 31 December, 2007 - 9:35pm

Moved
Moved from Cutworm or Dart Moths.
… john and jane balaban, 31 December, 2007 - 9:35pm login or register to post comments

Moved
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… john and jane balaban, 31 December, 2007 - 2:20pm login or register to post comments

Moth
Looks like a noctuid cutworm larva, perhaps Noctua pron*uba. I saw a good many of these a couple weeks ago as I was raking leaves. I thought they were feeding on the lawn.
… Jim McClarin, 25 December, 2006 - 4:17pm login or register to post comments

this may be a sawfly larva.
this may be a sawfly larva. Wish I could say more than that.
… Bobby Grizzard, 25 December, 2006 - 4:11pm login or register to post comments

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