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Field Notes

Description:

Black body with rings of brown fuzz, 6-8 cm long.

Habitat:

This caterpillar was crawling around in the grass amid coffee plants, halfway up a huge volcano in the high mountains area of Guatemala.

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alicelongmartin
When I was a little girl, they were always called Wooly worms!

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PublishedNovember 15, 2011

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