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Cut worm? Army worm? Are these all the same kind?

8 years ago

You would think with a book that has about 500 pages and the little one MissSherry recommended, I would have an easier time figuring things out for myself. There were at least 7 caterpillars on my fern. It’s not even a native one. The all green with the stripe was the smallest at around 13mm. The brown one and the green one with the pattern were about the same size at about 20mm or a bit bigger. The darker one somewhere in the middle.


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  • 8 years ago

    The first one is probably a marsh fern moth/Fagitana littera -



    The bottom, green one is a pink shaded fern moth/Callopistria mollissima. This type caterpillar is usually green, but the name apparently comes from the rarer, pink/red type, which has the same body markings -



    The other, darker cats are probably pink shaded fern moths about to make their cocoon. Many moth cats change color a little (or a lot?) when they do this, but this is just a guess on my part.


    If you really want to get into IDing caterpillars, you can get Caterpillars of Eastern North America by David L. Wagner, and the book where I found these cats, Owlet Caterpillars of Eastern North America by David L. Wagner, Dale F. Schweitzer, J. Bolling Sullivan and Richard C. Reardon. David Wagner is pretty much the caterpillar guru of eastern North America.


    Sherry












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