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Taken at Hidden Pond
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This was an interesting find when I was out volunteering at Molly Hollar Wildscape this morning. One of the other volunteers found this specimen. At an instant my mind went what the heck is that thing. It turned out to be the Caterpillar of the Io Moth. The caterpillar was a green and white color with little sticky protrusions out of its body. It was an interesting find and one I have never seen before. This is the only form of the Io Moth I have come to witness in the wild. He was curled up and in the mess of twigs and debris we were clearing out of the section. One of our volunteers returned him to rest in a tree we didn't manage hoping that he would carry on. It was a very fascinating little specimen equally interesting like the moth he is to become if nothing happens to it. Io moths are very neat and have big round eyespots on lower wings surrounded by red circles and has yellow on the rest of its body. They are a hardwood forest moth but didn't know they lived in my neck o' the Woods. It was just very interesting to observe even though it physically wasn't doing anything that I could see. It was just really cool to see such a unique caterpillar.
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Estado larvario. Vida libre
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Bright green caterpillar with spikes. Head was hard (helmit like). Brown/White lateral line along mid-body
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Seen while riding horses in Sept.
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