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Eastern tent caterpillar

Malacosoma americana

Photo by drP
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Field Notes

Description:

The caterpillars leave their tent during the day to forage, and return at night. At 3 PM, the tent was busy, with different sized caterpillars coming and going quite quickly, both around the tent, and into and out of the tent.

Habitat:

Several tents were in this patch of fragmented mixed oak-hickory forest.

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Species Malacosoma americana - Eastern Tent Caterpillar Moth - Hodges#7701 - Bu…

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