I was cleaning up around the outside of my greenhouse this am...first I found a copperhead(EEK!)..then I found a black widow (eek!) then I found this chubby lil thang. It's not in a my cat book for BF nor month cats. Anybody reconize it?
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Lil Chubby
veiw from other end
Maybe a Saddled Prominent:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/250/bgimage?from=72
I don't know if they have a brown form.
You are so good fly. Looks exactly like it except a different color. It is a beauty though.
Leslie
I thought the markings were nice.
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Hiya P!
Check this out too..
http://www.giffbeaton.com/Caterpillars/Oblique%20Heterocampa_2005-09-12-0064.jpg
Half way down the page there are 3 Heterocampa. aka Prominent Moths
Yours is more specifically:
Oblique Heterocampa
There are gobs of Heterocampas: Saddled Prominent (Heterocampa guttivitta), Oblique Heterocampa (Heterocampa obliqua), White-bloched Heterocampa (Heterocampa umbrata) , and about a dozen others. See how the Saddled Prominent overpaps the Heterocampa group?
Good call right off the bat Rox, I had seen this exact one and forgot the name, so I looked it up and found the other pics and information. I love bugfiles, but I have come to double check them in many cases. It helps to have more that a couple sites to look things up. The caterpillar site posted up there doesn't have everything, but it does have good pics and specific names for a lot of the cats we get in our areas down here in south US .
Here's a page from "What's that Bug?" site that has a couple heterocampas and some interresting dialog:
http://images.whatsthatbug.com/images/prominent_caterpillar.jpg
Most often Heterocampas will use Oak or Hop Tree as a larval host.
Sorry about horning in here.. I saw your post P, and wondered how you been too. How is your nursery coming along?
Hugamatics!
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Yeah Deb, I think the Oblique H. is a better match, the color is the same, good call!
Great picture Deb! I found it in a bunch of oak leaves. We have lots of oak trees.
I'm doing good. Getting ready to have flowering tree and shrub sale so I don't have so much to tend to over winter.
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