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Lily_love Central, AL(Zone 7b) Sep 18, 2008

I've found roughly 3 dozens of these caterpillars on my Eastern Rebuds. Please help I.d.
Thanks in advance.
Gardener in zone 7b.

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claypa West Pottsgrove, PA(Zone 6b) Sep 18, 2008

They're Red-humped Caterpillars, Schizura concinna. Someone posted these a couple weeks ago, also on a redbud tree.

http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/go/4510/

http://www.pbase.com/tmurray74/image/67116595

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Snodgrass_Schizura_concinna.jpg

http://www.entomology.umn.edu/cues/Web/194RedhumpedCaterpillar.pdf


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Lily_love Central, AL(Zone 7b) Sep 18, 2008

Those are THEM! Thanks Claypa.

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