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Caterpillar

Photo by Tiz
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Field Notes

Description:

A small (about 2 cm) odd dressed caterpillar. Mimicking dry leaf and grass blowing in the wind. See the movie.

Habitat:

This caterpillar was found on a man made stone wall dividing the bush camp from a river. (Hlane National park, Swaziland)

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (9)
Tiz
That is fantastic words Dan, really happy for them! Thanks a lot!!
Dan Doucette
Amazing! The video really brings it to life, awesome job Tina!
Tiz
Bayucca, I have very low expectations to ID this one to more than Geometridae. I dont know if I should add that to the spotting and be happy or keep on waiting a bit... After all there are about 26 000 different ones... What would you do?
Tiz
Thank you very much Kate and Chief!
Tiz
Thank you for the ID hint Bay :) And thank you Pamela for your nice comment. It is for sure a very odd little thing!
pamsai
Wonderful movie, Tina. Still can't get over the effort that creature put into moving! And the whole performance it put on. Didn't get very far, though...
bayucca
I know some Geometrinae which had some similar baggage.

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PublishedApril 30, 2014

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