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Photographed this guy by the entrance to the CF on Saturday morning. (He was moving very fast.) Who is he?
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I saw the same “Woolly Bear” at the path to Warden’s Watch – the caterpillars emerge during July/August and go through the winter and then pupate in June/July the following year. Wish I could post my picture mine was fuzzy and orange…..
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Wooly Booly catapillar. I think I know where Jim is going with this one!
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It won’t let me edit but I would like to change my answer…I no longer think it is the garden tigermoth…maybe the brown hairy although the coloration looks different which could just be my bad eyesight.
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Garden tigermoth caterpillar?
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a piece of moldy food that escaped from my refrigerator?
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Ginny
I saw the same “Woolly Bear” at the path to Warden’s Watch – the caterpillars emerge during July/August and go through the winter and then pupate in June/July the following year. Wish I could post my picture mine was fuzzy and orange…..
Pat Price
Wooly Booly catapillar. I think I know where Jim is going with this one!
Signed, Sam the Sham and The Pharoahs
Marianne Herrmann
It won’t let me edit but I would like to change my answer…I no longer think it is the garden tigermoth…maybe the brown hairy although the coloration looks different which could just be my bad eyesight.
Marianne Herrmann
Garden tigermoth caterpillar?
Mary Kostus
a piece of moldy food that escaped from my refrigerator?