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Phobetron cf. hipparchia
This spotting is of the same caterpillar as in this spotting, http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/394... It molted in between the 2 spottings on an avocado tree next to my house. The change in appearance is interesting. If I wouldn't have known otherwise, I would have thought them specimens of different species. When I first spotted it I was curious as to why it wasn't eating, but now I'm assuming it was preparing to molt as I found it eating avocado leaves after the molt.
Spotted on Jun 11, 2014
Submitted on Jun 12, 2014
5 Comments
Fascinating!
Cool!
Beautiful sereies Sigg,congrats and thanks for sharing
beautiful photos sigg!
Hi Sigg, an interesting spotting, especially taking the food plant into account...