Guardian Nature School Team Contact Blog Project Noah Facebook Project Noah Twitter

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

Virginian tiger moth caterpillar

Spilosoma virginica

Description:

1" long fuzzy pale yellow & green caterpillar

Habitat:

Semi rural wildlife habitat.

Notes:

On Queen Anne's lace growing wild around the ponds we created this year. It had been raining earlier & you can see the drops of water on its bristles.

Species ID Suggestions



Sign in to suggest organism ID

2 Comments

KarenL
KarenL 11 years ago

Thanks Maria!

Maria dB
Maria dB 11 years ago

beautiful series and the green background sets if off nicely

KarenL
Spotted by
KarenL

Franklin, Tennessee, USA

Spotted on Aug 18, 2012
Submitted on Aug 18, 2012

Related Spottings

Spilosoma sp Spilosoma lubricipeda Yellow Bear yellow bear

Nearby Spottings

Purple spored puffball Ruby-throated hummingbird nest Northern mockingbird Spotting
Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team