White Caterpillar
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White Caterpillar
What a cute caterpillar! Look at this little white furball! Anyone know what it is?
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I've looked all over the internet, and this is the only site that mentions albino wooly bears:
http://www.robsplants.com/critters/crawlers.php
There's a good picture there. Not sure if it's the same as my little furball, but it could be.
http://www.robsplants.com/critters/crawlers.php
There's a good picture there. Not sure if it's the same as my little furball, but it could be.
O.C> doesn't either
Wonder what kind of butterfly or moth it becomes ?
John
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Re: White Caterpillar
Oh No! This may be cute but it sure is deadly. 3 or 4 days ago I was walking past a large leafy bush (looks like lilac leaves), and I though I need to do a little trimming. There wasn't one caterpillar on the bush. It is aobut 6' high and about at least 12 feet around. Today, I was walking by and those cute fuzzy white Killerpillars ate 3/4 of the leaves off that bush. I mean devoured it. There are so many on there it looks like white sap. Even though caterpillars are plenty here inN.E. Pa. I never really had an problems with them even though I live in the country. I have witnessed the damage done by caterpillars plenty of times but never like this and this fast. Tomorrow I am contacting PennState AG extension to find out what these are before they go to other trees.
Re: White Caterpillar
I think it may be a flannel moth larva, Megalopygidae. I could not find out if they range to Washington state. There are 11 kinds in North America, so it may be possible that yours is one of them.
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Re: White Caterpillar
I saw this and went OMG!! Doris and OED are online, then I looked at the date
Hope they see you replied
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Re: White Caterpillar
I was wondering why Peg was back in Illinois......
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