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7 or 8cm long. Brown with spots down the side a spine at the rear and two "horns" about a fifth of the way from the nose towards the tail. It appears to be morphing into a leaf. Leaves are included. I can never identify Australian trees
This one was 2m off the ground among the outer fringe of leaves in a park beside a community centre and if this is a fungal growth then the disturbed nature of the area may have added to the caterpillars lack of immunity
unable to find a reference in all of the caterpillar viagara fungus craze sites
Spotted on Mar 11, 2013
Submitted on Mar 11, 2013
3 Comments
fungus
is that a parasitic fungus?
still looking