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greenthumb99 Lucketts, VA(Zone 7a) Sep 03, 2013

Saw this distinctive caterpillar today. Any ID suggestions? Thanks.

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Sep 03, 2013

It's a milkweed tussock moth caterpillar - http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Euchaetes-egle

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greenthumb99 Lucketts, VA(Zone 7a) Sep 03, 2013

Thanks Flap! Unsurprisingly, it was on a Purple Milkweed plant.

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sallyg Anne Arundel,, MD(Zone 7b) Sep 04, 2013

I've had crops of those several diffferent years, greenthumb;. on A syriacus, also on Dogbane.

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