Not the salt marsh caterpillar?

I e-mailed David L. Wagner, the Phd. author of the book Caterpillars of Eastern North America. He didn't recognize it, but suggested it could be a salt marsh cat, also. I raised several salt marsh cats last year. I found them on my pipevines, and I was afraid they'd eat my pipevine swallowtail eggs with the leaves, so I raised them myself. I thought they were woolly bears until they emerged. Here's a picture of one of the SM cats - if this cat is a SM cat, then SM cats are INDEED variable!
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I'm raising this one myself - I want to know for sure what it is!
Sherry

The other day, Lucy - I'm naming it after Lucille Ball - made a cocoon after she/he glued bits of pine straw to the side of the terrarium that's in my moth cage. I'm eagerly awaiting his/her emergence - I may have a long wait, since I don't know if it's a once a year type moth or if it has many yearly broods. Here's a picture of Lucy constructing the cocoon -
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MissSherry

Nice. Keep us updated!

I will Chubbly!
Did I have to post on the Insects Forum to hear from you?! I hope this isn't just your one annual posting!
I seem to remember that you were interested in great purple hairstreaks - look what showed up in my garden about a week ago -
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MissSherry

The other day I found a caterpillar on a wild black cherry tree that looks like a dark version of Lucy. I brought him into my moth cage to raise myself, and I think he's already cocooning, at least he's quit eating, and he's attached himself to the side of the terrarium where Lucy is in her cocoon.
The arrangement of his hair and his markings are the same as Lucy's - here's Ricky -
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MissSherry

For some bizarre reason I'll take a stab with Long Winded Dagger Moth (Acronicta longa).

Crud, I mean Long Winged.

Beautiful Missherry. I'm cultivating some mistletoe seeds right now! I'll let you know how it goes.

Long winded sounds good to me, day by day! In subsequent e-mails, David Wagner guessed that they're long winged dagger moths, too. I took a magnifying glass to the picture of one in his book, and it does indeed have the horizontal lines across its body like mine do - the coloring of the one in Wagner's book is different, but these cats all seem to be differently colored.
Good luck with the mistletoe seeds, Chubbly, I never did find any. I did, however, find certain areas where lots of mistletoe grows, which reminds me, I need to go check those areas out for cats and green seeds/fruits so I can scout them out until the seeds ripen.
Ricky is cocooning alright, but he's using oak leaves instead of pine straw bits - this is interesting!
MissSherry

Lucy and Ricky, lol!