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Field Notes

Habitat:

We found this caterpillar in the middle of a street close to Prospect Park

Notes:

Green caterpillar with stick color face

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
no
It looks similar but this one didn't have any hair and the rings weren't as marked as the Polyphemus moth. We should have taken a better picture!
KeithRoragen
I think this is probably a Polyphemus Moth caterpillar - Antheraea polyphemus. http://bugguide.net/node/view/427

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PublishedAugust 16, 2012

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