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Nymphalidae
Red legs, pink pointy towers with clear pink sort of needles and black with yellow markings body,clear pink snail antennas. The black spiny thing behind it puzzles me, I could see eyes on it?! it seems to be imbedded on the leaf
SOTD, October 19, 2013.
No, unfortunately, it is not Hamadryas guatemalena. So, we have to continue our search. Is there any chance to get later instar pictures from that one??
You might be right bayucca, It look like that one 2 days later, there was no more pink just black!!??
I do have lots of Hamadryas here, I sometimes wish I could video their sound they crack...so loudly.
Keith, I have search all the time and I am now pretty sure that it is not a Limacodidae. I would go now for, hmm... Nymphalidae? Biblidinae? Hamadryas? Hamadryas guatemalena, early instar?
Gilma, do you have photos of the more mature (albeit less stunning) caterpillar so that I can identify the species?
Thank you so much, Mark Ridgway. Two days later all the pink color turn black still beautiful but not as stunning.
Thank you so much for all the nice comments, Tom15, JoeHartman, Adarsha, and QWMom,
I have never seen something like this in my entire life...
Amazing spotting Gilma ! A very well deserved SOTD :) :)
Congratulations :)
Thank you also to: bherath20, Chamalka Dulmini, RiekoS and bayucca for all the nice comments.
Wow Gilma,great series,very well deserved SOTD,congrats and thanks for sharing
Thank so much, Dhirendra, Leonardo Castro and EnvUnlimited.
Love SOTD's it allows many more members to see interesting spottings.
Thank you so much, KarenL and Project Noah.
It is an honor to have a Spotting of the Day, I am so happy this gorgeous Caterpillar is SOTD.
Spotted on Oct 19, 2013
Submitted on Oct 19, 2013
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