Found this lil fellar this am while trimming back spirea shrubs. Good thing I learned to pay attention while gardening. I could have snipped him along with the stems. It's really committed to it's role as a stick....didn't even budge when I touched it with my finger nor moved the whole time I was out there.
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Wow, P, are you sure? That looks like a stick to me. LOL
Where's his legs?
That is really cool. I know I would have mistaken it for a stick, no doubt!!
It's holding onto the stem with a couple pair...I didn't look to see where the rest were.I'll check today if it's still on the plant.
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Definately good act he's got going there! Did you get him identified yet? When you do, you should post him in the Bug Files. That is a great shot.
P, that could be a Maple Spanworm Moth cat, maybe:
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/insects/cateast/ennomagn.htm
Wow, that looks like a definate possibility. What do you think P?
To me too Rox and Sheila..
Nice find there P
This guy looks a little like him too, the Pepper and Salt Geometer:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://pics.davesgarden.com/pics/Todd_Boland_1156890375_711_tn.jpg&imgrefurl=http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/commentsbyuser.php%3Fuser%3DDiOhio&h=100&w=100&sz=3&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=FP9MGhdlMRR9lM:&tbnh=82&tbnw=82&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpepper%2Band%2Bsalt%2Bgeometer%2Bcaterpillar%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
Funny name.
Oops.....try this one
This message was edited Sep 9, 2007 11:24 PM
Hmmmm....take a look at that link Fly. I am seeing a Sphinx moth nectaring.
looks more like this one to me
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http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/insects/cateast/antethis.htm
Big Red,
I got a charge out of your lead-in to this thread. I don't know why it really has made me chuckle. However, I know zilch about these caterpillars, so I can't add anything to your topic!!! 8-((
Karin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You must know those very well. I looked and looked and all I saw was a stick.
Maggie
I didn't realize there were so many that looked like sticks! Interesting.
As luck would have it,I had been looking at a webpage early that morning before I went outside to work and that was the first cat that I saw on the page. I mean,that had to be a millon to one chance.
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It does look like that one P.
It almost looks like his cocoon, see the silk attaching his left side, isn't that strange?
I saw that. I wasn't sure if it was his/her's or just a random string of silk.
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