CLOSED: Caterpillar Id Please, Eastern Shore of MD

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spgfr Delmar, MD Aug 05, 2016

This is a caterpillar isn't it? I found it suspended in a spider web. Length is around 20mm.

Thanks..

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Aug 05, 2016

It appears to be a tussock moth caterpillar of some kind, but badly shriveled because most of its innards have been consumed by parasitic wasp larvae. The white objects clinging to the caterpillar's body are the cocoons spun by the wasp larvae after they emerged from the caterpillar.

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