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Small spiky caterpillar, creamy yellow colour
Solanum torvum ~ Pea aubergine. Self seeded plant on a forest path
Spotted on Mar 30, 2014
Submitted on Mar 30, 2014
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Just looked up Twelve-spotted Gourd Ladybird larva and found this description bayucca ....http://www.agroatlas.ru/en/content/pests/Epilachna_chrysomelina/ - Larva in the 1st instar is about 2 mm in length, yellow; its dorsal surface is covered with 4 longitudinal rows of branched spicules. Mature larva is 9-10.5 mm in length, yellow-greenish, with 6 dorsal rows of spicules.
This spotting was on the same plant which I guess would tie in with Chun's suggestion bayucca - http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/224...
Hmm, could also be. I just checked these larva and spikes and shape and the shining darker area give a nice match, indeed. But I am not that sure about neither my Limacodidae nor the Epilachna. In dubio pro Epilachna ;-)...
Epilachna sp. ladybird beetle larva.
What do you think Bayucca ?
Limacodidae, early instar, I would say...