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Tortricid
caterpillar. Brown green. 3 or 4cm
Living in a nest made of silk, living and dead leaves and frass on a living sapling. There are many nests of this kind on this sapling and there seem to be no more then one or two caterpillars per nest
file #frass cat This seems to fit the description of a Tortricid Leaf Rolling Caterpillar so I am calling it that. There are lot of different species from this family in the area
Spotted on May 8, 2013
Submitted on May 8, 2013
3 Comments
maybe an id
Still finding them at this time of year? I will have to go back up there and see if they survived the bored teenagers. Their branches were right on the track and a lot of those bushes were ripped out when the kiddies got bored
I'm finding heaps of nests like this lately. Must do some science on them.