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Giant Leopard Moth Caterpillar

Hypercompe scribonia

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Field Notes

Description:

Photo take at night in my door entrance, this caterpillar was feed whit the leave of a Devil´s ivy plant.

Habitat:

It is distributed throughout the Southern and Eastern United States from New England to Mexico

Reference Links:

Giant Leopard Moth

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (7)
Gerardo Aizpuru
You right actually i have seen the banded too in the backyard i keep searching
KarenL
Lovely! Not Isabella tiger moth though as that species caterpillars are the banded woolly bears - http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/7659005

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PublishedFebruary 28, 2012

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