Well, we have a winner in the mystery caterpillar department. A few days ago I posted about some unknown caterpillars dining on a Loblolly Bay and although we narrowed them down to a likely family of moths I still couldn’t say for certain what they were, until now.
I decided on the wait and watch approach and it paid off this morning. I came in to the lab to discover that several of the caterpillars had molted and had entirely new coloration. They in fact are Red Humped Caterpillars! I suggested that the shape of them was similar to this species but the coloring was just all wrong… well after a good shed it appears that the coloring is now all right.
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