CLOSED: Cat with red "racing stripe"

Lucketts, VA(Zone 7a)

Unknown caterpillar. Please help. Thanks

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Minot, ND

Where was photo taken?

Lucketts, VA(Zone 7a)

Northern Virginia, yesterday.

Edited to say we live on a hardwood forested property, and cat was found beneath a Rhododendron.

This message was edited Jul 19, 2014 9:55 PM

Minot, ND

This appears to be a caterpillar of the agreeable tiger moth, Spilosoma congrua - https://www.flickr.com/photos/mangoverde/9448275684/
Like many arctiids, these show considerable variation in their individual color pattern....

Lucketts, VA(Zone 7a)

Thanks Flapdoodle, I'm pretty sure that's it. Red stripe is low enough on the side that a photo has to be taken from near ground level for it to show. Photo below is the same cat taken from a hihjer angle and matches your link. Thanks again.

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