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Saturniidae: Hemileucinae: Hemileucini
A bevy of caterpillars with black and white stripes, blue heads and red feet. Approximately 2.5 inches long. Unknown host plant.
Lowland Amazon Rainforest
@FranziskaBauer. Thanks for the ID suggestion. Any chance you can share a link to a photo of the adult moth?
Thanks everyone for your notes and suggestions! We are super excited about Amazon Awareness Week on Project Noah and will be posting more photos ASAP now that we are back from Peru!
Wonderful caterpillars, love the blue heads. They look right out of Alice in Wonderland! Congratulations on SOTD.
Amazing!! They are so beautiful!!
Congratulations on the Amazon Awareness Week.
I am hoping to run into then here in Costa Rica, that would be awesome!!
Fabulous photo of these furry caterpillars :-) congratulations on the SOTD
All info I've found says that these are beautiful, but POISONOUS. I can't nail down a scientific name, I'm finding them listed as Costa Rican Hairy Caterpillars.
Congratulations! For day 2 of Amazon Awareness Week we are featuring this bevy of caterpillars with black and white stripes, blue heads and red feet. Amazonian rainforests have unparalleled biodiversity and are home to about 2.5 million insect species – many yet to be documented!
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https://twitter.com/projectnoah/status/3...
Spotted on Jul 4, 2012
Submitted on Jun 2, 2013
