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I found this hairy colorful caterpillar in area near Tripoli- Libya North Africa, in 25 December 2015,. I don't know which the plants feed by because I found it directly on sand, there is different wild plants on the area around. the branches seen in pictures to take photo only. Description, orange to yellow hairy colours from head to tail, in the med of bodies there is strong red colours with strong blue spots seen in pictures. I am looking for ID please. Thanks.
I don't know if our caterpillar is Sycamore aceria, it is looks similar to me from the hair type point of view, but there is different in colours, also there is blue spots all over caterpillar's body, maybe it is different species. Really, I don,t know
Hi AltaherAltabet, welcome to Project Noah! To help your caterpillar getting identified, I have removed "Unidentified caterpillar" from the scientific name field (this field is reserved for the latin binomial name once your species is identified), and I have ticked the "help with ID" box for you.
Congrats AltaherAltabet! This lovely rainbow caterpillar has been chosen as our Spot of the Day! We hope it gets identified soon!
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Spotted on Dec 25, 2015
Submitted on Apr 2, 2016
