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Spotting

Description:

Tiny inchworm caterpillar found crawling on me after walking a trail through a forest.

Habitat:

Forest with some swamp inside of it

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3 Comments

Ali Hemati Pour
Ali Hemati Pour 11 years ago

very cool!

ForestDragon
ForestDragon 11 years ago

This little caterpillar is from Family Geometridae. It's a very large family of moths and it can be difficult to identify the species from the larvae. Sometimes you get lucky but not always. Here is a link to the Bugguide page for Family Geometridae:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/188/bgpage...

LoganReno
LoganReno 11 years ago

An inchworm! Cool!

KevinBBabbitt
Spotted by
KevinBBabbitt

Illinois, USA

Spotted on Oct 7, 2012
Submitted on Oct 24, 2012

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