This caterpillar is highly variable in coloration, but it usually has chevrons pointing forwards down its back. These caterpillars are about 5/8ths of an inch long. Although this is one of several very similar species, it is identified here to species because it is feeding on one of its typical host plants – Goldenrod – shown here, and because we have photographed the adult here as well.
Assumed to be fairly common in both of our nature centers, but a definite level of abundance in not yet known.
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