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PanamonCreel Celaya, Mexico(Zone 10a) Aug 23, 2007

Got a few of those munching on my Passifloras, any idea which ones they are?

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PanamonCreel Celaya, Mexico(Zone 10a) Aug 23, 2007

Partial bottom view

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Silly_Sane Aug 23, 2007

looks to be a salt marsh caterpillar

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fly_girl The Woodlands, TX(Zone 8b) Aug 23, 2007

It kind of looks like a Fall webworm too, I couldn't find a very good photo of it, but here's one:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://wihort.uwex.edu/Phenology/images/Fall%2520Webworm.jpg&imgrefurl=http://wihort.uwex.edu/Phenology/FallWebworm.html&h=225&w=292&sz=25&hl=en&start=25&tbnid=QMC1l1o8RXDrGM:&tbnh=89&tbnw=115&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfall%2Bwebworm%26start%3D20%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26rls%3DDNUS,DNUS:2006-36,DNUS:en%26sa%3DN

It has those black dots on it's back.

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PanamonCreel Celaya, Mexico(Zone 10a) Aug 23, 2007

Hmmm I doubt it's a fall webworm due to the missing "web structure".

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fly_girl The Woodlands, TX(Zone 8b) Aug 23, 2007

The fall webworms are gregarious until the last instar, then they leave the web and feed individually.

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PanamonCreel Celaya, Mexico(Zone 10a) Aug 24, 2007

those cats already been there in an early instar.

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fly_girl The Woodlands, TX(Zone 8b) Aug 24, 2007

Maybe he's not then, I can't find anything else similar. You could raise a couple and see what they become :)
Just think of the valuable contribution to Bug Files it would be.....is this working? lol

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fly_girl The Woodlands, TX(Zone 8b) Aug 27, 2007

Here's your cat, Silly_Sane was right....it is a Salt Marsh Moth cat:

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/764821/

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