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Large black fuzzy caterpillar, I didn't even realize that he had any brown marks on him at all until he was wrapping himself around the leaf and I was taking a close up. The markings look like they are on his skin, not in the hair. But the lower bottom hairs do have a reddish orange tint to them in the light. It also has a shiny black head. My son says its a poisonous asp and you have to go to the hospital if it stings/bites you?
we almost stepped on this guy walking to the truck.
Spotted on May 21, 2014
Submitted on May 21, 2014
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It doesn't have the colored banding between the segments like the Giant Leopard Moth. It is solid black except on the very bottom by his legs where you can see some brown/reddish/orange marks.
Not 100% sure..... But this is what I think anyway.... Giant Leopard Moth