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Help ID This Caterpillar
« on: October 26, 2009, 07:36:54 am »
An associate found this caterpillar and stated that it was eating pine needles from a loblolly pine.  I have never seen this caterpillar before, and I hoped that one of you caterpillar types could ID it?

 



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Re: Help ID This Caterpillar
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2009, 08:21:52 am »
Eacles Imperialis

An Imperial Moth
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Re: Help ID This Caterpillar
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2009, 08:51:47 am »
Outstanding!  I knew that I could count on a good bug man like you  ;D.
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Re: Help ID This Caterpillar
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2009, 09:11:43 am »
I see the same or very similar looking caterpillar on Alligatorweed around ponds.  Never took time to ID it. 
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Re: Help ID This Caterpillar
« Reply #4 on: November 10, 2009, 03:25:33 pm »
we see them up here often on tomatoes hence what we always called them mater worms :)

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Re: Help ID This Caterpillar
« Reply #5 on: November 10, 2009, 03:38:02 pm »
SPIKER, I think what you're referring to is probably a tomato hornworm, which looks similar, but is smaller with a single long, black spine on his hind end.

Also, not to be terribly contrary, but WDH's bug looks more like a luna moth caterpillar than an imperial moth caterpillar
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Re: Help ID This Caterpillar
« Reply #6 on: November 11, 2009, 04:26:54 pm »
Dodgy: yep thats it :D   I didnt know there were more than one BIG GREEN caterpillar!

sure are some funky critters out there...
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Re: Help ID This Caterpillar
« Reply #7 on: November 26, 2009, 06:18:02 pm »
Giant silk worm, if it is large with eye spots when adult. I've had giant silk worms on my walnut trees. Never more than 1 or 2 at a time. I killed one adult one fall in the basement. Remember I posted a pic of a smooshed moth? ;D


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