Phobetron pithecium
At some point in time a couple of months ago a visitor to Old Rag came up to the Contact Station in the parking lot and asked the Ranger and I if we knew what the following caterpillar was.
We did not. I looked it up when I got home and I thought I had posted it to my blog but had not.
The answer to his question was Hag Mouth Larvae or Monkey Slug and below is a picture of what it looked like:
All pictures from following link:
https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&aq=&oq=&rlz=1T4ADRA_enUS456US456&q=Phobetron+pithecium&tbm=isch#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=7tEGsab8NxR4iM%3A%3Bw1OjEI9gQrusmM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fmothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu%252FFiles1%252FJV%252F300%252FJV4677f-300.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fmothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu%252Fspecies.php%253Fhodges%253D4677%3B300%3B225
This is what the moth looks like:
Nature continues to amaze me.
