Caterpillar Identification

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Tom
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Caterpillar Identification

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Caterpillar Identification:

Please see Anthony's email below. The other pictures are posted in the relevant forum areas.

Hi Tom,

Here are pics of the insects I saw in Inverie last month. Amongst them, I'm told, are pics of a wood wasp and emperor moth caterpillar. The young bug - well...

Anthony

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1637 Oak Eggar<br />Lasiocampa quercus<br />(Linnaeus, 1758)
1637 Oak Eggar
Lasiocampa quercus
(Linnaeus, 1758)
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stevehind
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Re: Caterpillar Identification

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This is Lasiocampa quercus, the Northern Eggar or Oak Eggar.

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