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Index of Subjects 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 > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.0/439 - Release Date: 9/6/2006
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