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Danaus chrysippus
"The caterpillar is uniformly cylindrical. Its body is covered with bands of black and white interspersed with thick, yellow, dorsolateral spots. The most striking characteristics are the 3 pairs of long and black tentacle-like appendages. The first pair is moveable and also the longest. The tentacles are present on the 3rd, 6th and 12th segments. The head is shiny, smooth and has alternating black and white semicircular bands. The legs and prolegs are black and the prolegs have white bands at their bases." (wiki)
Feeds on Milkweed species...shown here on a Dead Sea Apple tree (Calotropis procera) leaf
Spotted on Feb 8, 2010
Submitted on Feb 2, 2012
4 Comments
A beautiful caterpillar....
Thanks! And since we have a lot of milkweeds in Sinai, we see a lot of these. I actually have to pick them off the young plants in my garden or they would have devoured them all by now.
Nice spotting... Yes they frequently seen on Milkweeds..!!
Stunning .. ..