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

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

Forest Tent Caterpillar

Malacosoma disstria

Spotting Image 1

Habitat:

Outside Hatcher Library, UM Campus

Notes:

All over the floor! Must have fallen out of a tree

1 Species ID Suggestions

Noah Ranger +2
ForestDragon
ForestDragon 8 years ago
Forest Tent Caterpillar
Malacosoma disstria Species Malacosoma disstria - Forest Tent Caterpillar Moth - Hodges#7698 - BugGuide.Net


Sign in to suggest organism ID

2 Comments

Salticus
Salticus 8 years ago

Thanks! That looks much better. Fixing the ID accordingly :)

Noah Ranger
ForestDragon
ForestDragon 8 years ago

Nice find! The markings are more consistent with the Forest Tent Caterpillar. :-)
Here is a link to the BugGuide.net page for the Eastern Tent Caterpillar, so you can compare. http://bugguide.net/node/view/558

Sign in to comment
Salticus
Spotted by
Salticus

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Spotted on May 18, 2015
Submitted on May 20, 2015

Spotted for Missions

Related Spottings

Tent Caterpillars Tent Caterpillar Lackey Moth Eastern tent caterpillar

Nearby Spottings

Eastern cottontail Red-tailed hawk Fox squirrel

Tags

malacosoma disstria malacosoma tent caterpillar caterpillar
Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team