[NatureNS] Wooley Bear Caterpillar

From: "Jean Timpa" <jtimpa@ns.sympatico.ca>
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Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 21:41:47 -0300
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	According to my Golden Guide to Insects (1951!!), the Acrea and Isabella Moth 
family,Arctiidae represent some 200 American species. Your caterpillar certainly looks like 
one of the many so called Wooley Bear larvae but is probably one of the lesser known ones 
and is all black. They hibernate this time of year, and then resume eating in the spring and 
turn into one of the many Isabella type moths. Douglas G. Ferguson in his guide,The 
Lepidoptera of Nova Scotia, Part 1, the Macrolepidoptera, lists a dark form of _Estigmene 
acrea_, describing the caterpillar as having both brown and blue-gray forms. JET

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