ID Please ..Big Yellow Caterpillar

[BIGFRANK]

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

[Anonymous]

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://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/inse ... ttorr.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.  

[Jon]

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