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Symmerista canicosta
The orange-red hump on the back end is possibly to confuse predators as to which end is the head. In the first picture, it was chewing away on an oak leaf. When I got too close, it reared its back end (picture 2). The species was identified based on the number of black and white stripes on its back (picture 3).
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