Coincidentally, my students found the same caterpillar two days ago out at Knightville Basin in Huntington, MA.
The closed gentian out there is fantastic! Gary On Oct 7, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Edward Frank wrote: > 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. > > <DSCN1412b.JPG> > > > "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 > ----- Original Message ----- > 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 > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
