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got2Bgreen Coast range of, OR(Zone 8b) Jul 31, 2006

This little guy and ALL of his cousins have moved into my garden. They seem to like this particular weed more than the vegetables at this time, but I need to know if they are good guys or a bad guys.

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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Jul 31, 2006

That looks to me like the caterpillar of the Cinnabar Moth Tyria jacobaeae in the Arctiidae. http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/pheronet/ins/tyriajacob.html
http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species?l=3683
which love to feed on Ragwort Senecio jacobaea and other members of the Senecio genus

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got2Bgreen Coast range of, OR(Zone 8b) Jul 31, 2006

Thanks, now I know what those moths are that we saw at the beginning of the summer.

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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Jul 31, 2006

You might like to add your images to the Bug Files. I have just created an entry for the Cinnabar Moth at http://davesgarden.com/bf/go/240/

Ken

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