Porcelain Gray (Protoboarmia porcelaria) | Project Noah

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Photo by Machi

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Field Notes

Description:

This caterpillar was moving very slowly and would pose as a stick every now and then by just sticking straight out of the stem. It had some bumps in the middle of its body on each side.

Habitat:

Rural farm on a plant whose leaves had not grown back yet

Notes:

See the comments on how the editors came to an ID on this tricky caterpillar: https://bugguide.net/node/view/1272205#2699842

Reference Links:

Species Protoboarmia porcelaria - Porcelain Gray - Hodges#6598 - BugGuide.Net

Species ID Suggestions

Peppered Moth

Biston betularia

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