Yellow Bear caterpillar (Spilosoma virginica), sometimes known as the Yellow Wooly Bear. Compare with one I photographed last year: they come in a great range of colors. According to Wagner, the pale early instars are gregarious, the older instars wonder lonely as a cloud. (I may have hopped-up Wagner’s description a bit.)
Yellow Bear
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Or borrowed a bit from William Wordsworth. Syncretism!
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[…] The very long hairs are key to ID. Here’s an example from Staten Island. Another from Prospect Park.Insert exclamation point. This is the Redhumped Caterpillar (Schizura concinna). Nothing else looks […]
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[…] seems the Yellow Bear caterpillar is yellow in early instars, but then individuals takes on a variety of colors. Virginia […]
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