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Caterpillar

Photo by SukanyaDatta
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Description:

Very bristly. Brown and orange.

Habitat:

Found feeding on a potted dwarf Tabernaemontana plant and was about to be killed by the gardener. On my intervention was released into a grassy patch...I hope this is not the larval stage of a pest.

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Caterpillars and larvae of the World
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National Geographic's Great Nature Project

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PublishedAugust 17, 2014

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