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Tropical armyworm caterpillar

Spodoptera litura

Photo by JillBlack
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-36.33, 174.72

Field Notes

Description:

Spotted crawling along the concrete. First recorded in New Zealand in 1955.

Caterpillar feeds on all sorts of plants including tomato, cabbage, strawberry, kumara, Fuchsia etc. etc.

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Biodiversity of North Island, New Zealand
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N.Z. Moths and Butterflies

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PublishedMarch 27, 2016

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