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Butterfly education, conservation, gardening and volunteering! Founded 1992; Non Profit 501(c)3; [email protected]
Virginia Beach, VA
Joined April 2011
For Day 22, The Caterpillar Lab is highlighting the Cecropia moth (Hyalophora cecropia), January's featured Saturniid Giant Silk Moth---the colorful caterpillars get as large as breakfast sausages, and the size of their frass is incredible! ;-)
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For Day 22, The Caterpillar Lab is highlighting the Cecropia moth (Hyalophora cecropia), January's featured Saturniid giant silk moth... Enjoy this amazing video of a Cecropia cat molting!
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Another venomous Limacodid, the Crowned Slug (Isa textula), is The Caterpillar Lab's Day 21 caterpillar-of-the-day...
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The Caterpillar Lab provides more information on the Monarch, its selection for Day 20...
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The caterpillar-of-the-day for Day 20 is one familiar to most: Monarch (Danaus plexippus)...
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For Days 18/19, The Caterpillar Lab's featured cat is the Nameless Pinion (Lithophane innominata)..
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For Day 17, The Caterpillar Lab brings us Lemon Plagodis (Plagodis serinaria)---sounds like a dessert, but is actually a twig mimic geometrid...
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Day 16 of the 'Caterpillar-of-the-Day" calendar reveals the Pink-Patched Loopef (Eosphoroyeryx thyatyroides)...
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The Caterpillar Lab adds this post for Day 15: A large Ichneumon wasp which emerged from a Yellow Bear cocoon it had parasitized...
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As s bonus cat for Day 15, The Caterpillar Lab presents the Great Tiger Moth (Arctia caja)!
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Day 15 featured caterpillar is the Virginian Tiger Moth aka 'Yellow Bear" (Spilodoma virginica)...
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Video of a Cecropia cat which has been parasitized by a tachinid fly, with some of the maggots which hatch from those eggs being parasitized in turn by a hyperparasitoid wasp...
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Day 14 provides education on parasitoids of the Cecropia Giant Silk Moth (Hyalophora cecropia)...
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Time to reveal The Caterpillar Lab's pick for 'caterpillar-of-the-day' for Day 13... Drumroll, please... It's the Ilia Underwing (Catocala ilia)!
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"All right, Mr. Jaffe, I'm ready for my closeup!" ;-)
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An amazing video from The Caterpillar Lab of a ventral view of a Saddleback cat molting...
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