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Field Notes

Description:

Fuzzy dark brown and black caterpillar. Perhaps a Leopard Moth or a Tiger Moth?

Habitat:

Suburban garden.

Species ID Suggestions

Black woolly bear caterpillar

Pyrrharctia isabella
Stephen H.
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Comments (1)
SolveigSingleton
This one is a puzzle. Other images of Pyrrharctia isabella that I've turned up have an orange band. This one doesn't--no sign of an orange band anywhere. Could someone kindly confirm that there is indeed an all-black variant?

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PublishedJuly 21, 2013

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