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Wildlife Reports => Toronto Wildlife => Topic started by: BIGFRANK on August 07, 2006, 06:07:13 PM

Title: ID Please ..Big Yellow Caterpillar
Post by: BIGFRANK on August 07, 2006, 06:07:13 PM

Im sure some brilliant board user will know what Ive photographed! It was 4-6inches long,mostly yellow.

(http://i2.tinypic.com/23w8xer.jpg)

Title: Big Yellow Caterpillar
Post by: Anonymous on August 07, 2006, 08:16:14 PM

Check these out Frank.

It may be a Spotted Apatelodes moth caterpillar (Apatelodes torrefacta). Check the web sites below, especialy the first one.

http://rurality.blogspot.com/2005/09/ye ... illar.html (http://rurality.blogspot.com/2005/09/yellow-fuzzy-caterpillar.html)

http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/inse ... ttorr.html (http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/insects/cateast/apattorr.html)

I am not a Butterfly/Moth guy but.   :wink:

By the way looking forward to your Raptor reports not too long from now and hope to see you at High Park at least a couple of times.   8)

Title: Caterpillar Id
Post by: Jon on August 13, 2006, 09:23:43 AM

Here is another photo of what I think is the same caterpillar.  I had originally thought it was the same thing Norm had suggested, but after doing a more detailed search, came up with American Dagger Moth.

Click on the link to see the photo I took:
http://ca.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/j.clayton@rogers.com/detail?.dir=e493re2&.dnm=c127re2.jpg&.src=ph

Jon