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The Urban Pantheist
Loving Nature While Living in the City
Big black
Big black
Oct
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4th
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2005
06:42 pm
urbpan
Giant Leopard Moth Caterpillar
Ecpantheria scribonia
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whoops.
Date:
2005-10-05 08:02 am (UTC)
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brush-rat.livejournal.com
That was me, too tired and shagged out from watching puppet sex to remember to sign in.
Re: whoops.
Date:
2005-10-05 11:13 am (UTC)
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urbpan.livejournal.com
My god, man.
These ones are supposed to be all black, but I've never seen one that big. It has bands of red skin inbetween the black bristles, but you can only see them if they go into a defensive curl.
This page has some good pictures of that, and of the beautiful adult moth:
http://www.hiltonpond.org/ThisWeek020608.html
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whoops.
Date: 2005-10-05 08:02 am (UTC)Re: whoops.
Date: 2005-10-05 11:13 am (UTC)These ones are supposed to be all black, but I've never seen one that big. It has bands of red skin inbetween the black bristles, but you can only see them if they go into a defensive curl.
This page has some good pictures of that, and of the beautiful adult moth: http://www.hiltonpond.org/ThisWeek020608.html