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reddish-brown colour.&nbsp;<div><br></div><div>But I won't This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0025_01CC6ED1.CD21B3E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable If you get one of these caterpillars in hand, E.acrea and S.virginica = can be sperated by the amount of hair on their bodies. Generally the = caterpillar of E.acrea has the hair in dense tufts and the caterpillars = body can be readily seen in between the tufts = http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/showimage/4104/ while S.virginica is densly covered with hairs that obscure most of the = body.=20 http://www.pbase.com/fwg/image/104978295 Virginica is also smaller but this is only useful if you have one of = each to compare. I have found that the ones we get crossing the highways this time of = year are usually virginica but of course several different species may = be involved including Jim Edsall=20 Dartmouth, N.S. check out my personal website at=20 http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/jim.edsall/ ------=_NextPart_000_0025_01CC6ED1.CD21B3E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META name=3DGENERATOR content=3D"MSHTML 8.00.6001.19120"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV>If you get one of these caterpillars in hand, E.acrea and = S.virginica can=20 be sperated by the amount of hair on their bodies. Generally the = caterpillar of=20 E.acrea has the hair in dense tufts and the caterpillars body can be = readily=20 seen in between the tufts <A=20 href=3D"http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/showimage/4104/">http://davesgar= den.com/guides/bf/showimage/4104/</A></DIV> <DIV>while S.virginica is densly covered with hairs that obscure most of = the=20 body. </DIV> <DIV><A=20 href=3D"http://www.pbase.com/fwg/image/104978295">http://www.pbase.com/fw= g/image/104978295</A></DIV> <DIV>Virginica is also smaller but this is only useful if you have one = of each=20 to compare.</DIV> <DIV>I have found that the ones we get crossing the highways this time = of year=20 are usually virginica but of course several different species may be = involved=20 including</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Jim Edsall <BR>Dartmouth, N.S.<BR>check out my personal website at = <BR><A=20 href=3D"http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/jim.edsall/">http://www3.ns.sympatico= .ca/jim.edsall/</A></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0025_01CC6ED1.CD21B3E0--
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