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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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