[NatureNS] Wooley Bear Caterpillar

Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 21:56:33 -0300
From: Joan Czapalay <joancz@ns.sympatico.ca>
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Thanks, Jean. Joan

Jean Timpa wrote:

>         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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