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Field Notes

Description:

Large green caterpillar with prominant head and tail ends. The tail has a thorn-like point jotting out from the dorsal end. Length: 65mm.

Habitat:

Sub-urb building surrounded by thick forests.

Notes:

1. This caterpillar has shocked my wife as it had stripped my wife's money plant clean - no sign of any leaves left! 2. The look-like eyes become prominant (pictures 1 & 2) when it's under threat, which just 'collapses' and almost disappears (pictures 4 & 5) when it stretches its fore part and starts feeding or moving. I'd completely missed it earlier when I noticed the half eaten leaves and lots of droppings on the floor and instead I was looking for it all over the places, whereas it was very much hanging onto the moneyplant!

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Comments (10)
DanielePralong
You're welcome :-) It is a known security glitch which occurs with most browsers and many platforms which, like Project Noah, use the secure services provided by Facebook and Google. These are https sites, whereas Project Noah is not a this stage. It usually disappears until the next security update but can also often appear if you open a spotting from an e-mail link and then try to edit it. If you continue to experience problems just email us .
DrNamgyalTSherpa
Thanks Sukanya and Daniele for the prompt response and the suggestions. It worked for sometime. I'm trying further. Will get back to you if I'm stuck for longer.
DanielePralong
DrNamgyalT.Sherpa, please email us at [email protected] with your username, details of your browser and the operating system on the device you use to access Project Noah, a description of the problems you encounter, and we'll do our best to help you :-) Also, first try Sukanya's suggestion, which deals with the the most frequent problem currently encoutered by our users.
SukanyaDatta
Locked out? What do you mean?What is not working? Try removing the s from https in the address bar. It is a security issue. Hope it works. I had a similar problem.
DrNamgyalTSherpa
Thanks Sukanya. I guess I am locked out from the group! Except one or two basics rest of the programmes don't work! Can Daniele help!
DrNamgyalTSherpa
You are welcome Sukanya. I'm adding a photo of the moneyplant skeleton for your interest!
DrNamgyalTSherpa
Thanks Sukanya. I made two observations on this caterpillar: 1. I intruduced to him some other leaves - which other caterpillars had eaten - it refused to eat them. 2. Each time that I took it to some other garden plant, with fleshy leaves, (not to another money plant!) instead of eating it, it headed towards the spot where the money plant it had eaten earlier was kept! Three times it had moved more than 15 feet that way. Without eating for 3 days it had lost lots of body weight. Sadly, our kitten, Mimmy, had spotted it on daythree and I found it injured and bleeding on the footmat!
SukanyaDatta
Oh! In so many years I had not known any insect/caterpillar to eat leaves of the money plant.....learned something new today. Any chance of being able to observe emergence of the adult? But now that it has eaten all the leaves maybe it will go looking for something else. I am very intrigued.

Spotted for Missions

Mission
Arthropods of North East India
Mission
Himalayan Biodiversity
Mission
Caterpillars and larvae of the World
Mission
INDIAN WILDLIFE

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PublishedOctober 13, 2016

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