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Can You Help ID This Caterpillar?
A friend asks for I.D. help on this caterpillar. It looks vaguely familiar — a moth caterpillar perhaps?
iNaturalist suggests it is a dagger moth caterpillar — American.
You can read more about this moth here.
By the way, once it becomes a moth, don't pick it up.
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I think you’re ID is correct – cat for an American Dagger Moth.
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Denise
I think you’re ID is correct – cat for an American Dagger Moth.