Forest Tent caterpillar (Malacosoma disstria)

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Photo by Christine Y.

Published on Project Noah

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Field Notes

Description:

Dark-gray to brownish-black background body color, highlighted by blue lines and thin, broken yellow lines extending along each side; dorsum of each abdominal segment has distinct whitish keyhole-shaped marking. Body has fine, sparsely distributed hairs

Habitat:

I spotted a bunch of these caterpillars throughout a deciduous forest area at Bent of the River Audubon. This one was crawling along the roots of a tree on the bank of a stream, and it kept getting stuck in the sand.