Okay, someone, identify this for me. What the heck is it? It was sitting in the blackberry bushes, looking ready to pupate.And if you're wondering what is behind it (as Richard the Non-Gardener was) - it's my gardening glove. It was our Spinal Tap moment...
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Whoa! Looks a little Sontaran don't you think? LOL.
I went to this website:
http://www.discoverlife.org/20/q?guide=Caterpillars
If you scroll down to 4. distinct features and click on the lava below 42 Spines, it looks a little like your foundling. Some kind of moth I presume. Good luck ID-ing him/her!
If it's a buckmoth caterpillar, it may be poisonous or so this site says:
http://bexar-tx.tamu.edu/IPM/Landscape/F1/nStingingCaterpillars.htm
AH! It just bit me! Suji, tell everyone I love theeeeeeeeeeeeeeemmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.................
It also looks like a Great Spangled Frittilary.
Is that your ghost Sheila? LOL. Yes you're right, it does!
It's definitely a caterpillar.
I know that because I'm ejughti.
- R
Oh my, Rebecca, you really ARE ejughti. It IS a caterpillar!
(cough cough, among other things, cough cough)
This may be your guy:
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/insects/catnw/pht129.htm
Hemileuca eglanterina [Saturniidae]
Brown Day Moth
Here's another blurb and photo... but the markings are different (although, apparently, it does that).
http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species?l=3329
Parclob,
R
Houston, we have lift-off.
Also called 'Western Sheepmoth'.
http://lepidoptera.jcmdi.com/m/Sat/eglanterina/eglanterinar.html
Twitch,
Your favourite Puviniz!
"(cough cough, among other things, cough cough)"
Hey, I figured out, before I read the comment about Richard, that the background was, indeed, a gardening glove. I definitely AM ejughti. Tack on a little somicto and you've got me pegged.
- R
Oooh, and I thought tomato horn worms were creepy. Actually, on second look, your fella is kinda cute with those weird feather like things coming out of him. He looks sort of Dr. Suessish.
rewer - At first the Western Sheep moth was quite pleased that Shelia picked him up and found him worthy of a photo shoot, but soon, when he began missing his beloved blackberry bush home, he began to rew 'er. (oh, it's close enough to rue...)
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