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Emerald butterfly caterpillar

Philaethria wernickei

Description:

I once found one of these, but it was dead: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/115... . This one seems to be an earlier instar. It is around 5 cm long.



1 species ID suggestions

EarlyStages
EarlyStages 10 months ago
"Emerald Butterfly"
Philaethria wernickei Unknown spotting | Project Noah

12 Comments

EarlyStages
EarlyStages 10 months ago

Assuming its luck continued, the chrysalis looked like this . . .
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-a...
See also http://tolweb.org/Philaethria/70437

MayraSpringmann
MayraSpringmann 11 months ago

Wow!!! Fantastica macro!!

Sergio Monteiro
Sergio Monteiro 11 months ago

Sumukha, Yasser, Harsuame, thank you.

harsuame
harsuame 11 months ago

Amigo espacial genial::

Yasser
Yasser 11 months ago

Wow!

Sumukha Javagal
Sumukha Javagal 11 months ago

Spikey Beauty..:-) Great series..!

Sergio Monteiro
Sergio Monteiro 11 months ago

Gerardo, Jolly, Sachin, Carol & Karen, thank you.

KarenL
KarenL 11 months ago

Awesome!

Sachin Zaveri
Sachin Zaveri 11 months ago

wow,,

Jolly Ibañez
Jolly Ibañez 11 months ago

Funky little worm. Nice series.

CarolSnowMilne
CarolSnowMilne 11 months ago

Love your caterpillar. It is totally awesome. I AM SPEECHLESS again! I think photo #2 should be the main one. That's my girly opinion.

Gerardo Aizpuru
Gerardo Aizpuru 11 months ago

Wow extraordinary Sergio this super:)

Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Lat: -25.48, Long: -49.29

Spotted on Jul 8, 2012
Submitted on Jul 9, 2012

Spotted for mission

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