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Yes, it is the crazy caterpillars season again!

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Sergio Monteiro
Sergio Monteiro 10 years ago

LandmarkExpert, they are all here: http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/1410...

Sergio Monteiro
Sergio Monteiro 10 years ago

Luis, Ms. Rieko, Jill, Yasser, Jolly, Forest Dragon, LandmarkExpert, thank you.

Caleb Steindel
Caleb Steindel 10 years ago

sergio, whenever i want to look at crazy caterpillars i just go to your home page!!! haha, your guys are so funny!!!

ForestDragon
ForestDragon 10 years ago

Very similar to our Horned Spanworm, Nematocampa resistaria:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/775999/bgi...
http://bugguide.net/node/view/503069/bgi...
http://bugguide.net/node/view/56283/bgim...

I wonder if it is related. Beautiful creature!

Jolly Ibañez
Jolly Ibañez 10 years ago

Magnificent series Sergio. I was just looking at the map and realized that Brazil is 4 times bigger than my country! No wonder you have so much to share.

Yasser
Yasser 10 years ago

Unbelievable. Sergio, we should put together a whole book on just your caterpillars! We could call it "Caterpillars of Curitiba" :)

JillBlack
JillBlack 10 years ago

Great series of a unusual caterpillar wonder what it will turn into?

RiekoS
RiekoS 10 years ago

Agree with LuisStevens. Just amazing.

LuisStevens
LuisStevens 10 years ago

Amazing caterpillar! Mimicking a dragon?

Sergio Monteiro
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Sergio Monteiro

Curitiba, PR, Brazil

Spotted on Oct 29, 2013
Submitted on Oct 30, 2013

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