Great Southern White Caterpillars (Ascia monuste monuste) | Project Noah

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Photo by SG in CR

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Field Notes

Description:

Gray and yellow stripped caterpillars with black spots that have little hairs coming out of them.

Habitat:

Radish plants in a vegetable garden.

Notes:

I collected one of the pupae from these to see what it turned into. You can check out the other spottings with the pupa and adult here, http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/824266008 and http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/818546005
Higher resolution images can be seen here, https://www.flickr.com/photos/66454855@N06/sets/72157647151815207/

Reference Links:

Ascia monuste, Ascia m. monuste (Linnaeus, 1764)

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Beautiful caterpillars....

Gilma Jeannette Ospino Ferreira-Norman

Found one today in my Garden not on radish plant though.

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