ENTS, For those of you on the Seneca Trail and Mohawk Trail hike this past Saturday at Cook Forest, you might recall we found a yellow fuzzy caterpillar that was eating oak leaves on the top of the hill. Doug Bidlack, an etymologist, reports that it was an American Dagger Moth caterpillar (Acronicta americana). See the note below.
"Oh, I call myself a scientist. I wear a white coat and probe a monkey every
now and then, but if I put monetary gain ahead of preserving nature...I
couldn't live with myself." - Professor Hubert Farnsworth
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From: doug bidlack
To: Edward Frank
Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 11:13 PM
Subject: Re: Catterpillers
Ed,
I checked this guy out and it looks like it's an American Dagger Moth
caterpillar (Acronicta americana). It appears that it will happily feed on the
leaves of many deciduous trees. It is in the very large Noctuidae family and
not in the Lymantriidae family as I had guessed. This species is the largest
of the Dagger Moths and they are quite common in the eastern US.
Doug
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