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#caterpillar — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #caterpillar, aggregated by home.social.

  1. My best-guess ID for this #caterpillar, encountered yesterday afternoon on the sidewalk, is the Yellow Woolly Bear, larva of the Virginia Tiger Moth (Spilosoma virginica). This is based on the lazy method of asking AI to identify the photo, plus looking it up in an actual book, my trusty Peterson's Field Guide to the #Moths by Beadle and Leckie (2012 edition).

    #caterpillar #moths #insects #lepidoptera #biology #biodiversity #nature #entomology #caterpillars #naturephotography

  2. My best-guess ID for this #caterpillar, encountered yesterday afternoon on the sidewalk, is the Yellow Woolly Bear, larva of the Virginia Tiger Moth (Spilosoma virginica). This is based on the lazy method of asking AI to identify the photo, plus looking it up in an actual book, my trusty Peterson's Field Guide to the #Moths by Beadle and Leckie (2012 edition).

    #caterpillar #moths #insects #lepidoptera #biology #biodiversity #nature #entomology #caterpillars #naturephotography

  3. My best-guess ID for this #caterpillar, encountered yesterday afternoon on the sidewalk, is the Yellow Woolly Bear, larva of the Virginia Tiger Moth (Spilosoma virginica). This is based on the lazy method of asking AI to identify the photo, plus looking it up in an actual book, my trusty Peterson's Field Guide to the #Moths by Beadle and Leckie (2012 edition).

    #caterpillar #moths #insects #lepidoptera #biology #biodiversity #nature #entomology #caterpillars #naturephotography

  4. My best-guess ID for this #caterpillar, encountered yesterday afternoon on the sidewalk, is the Yellow Woolly Bear, larva of the Virginia Tiger Moth (Spilosoma virginica). This is based on the lazy method of asking AI to identify the photo, plus looking it up in an actual book, my trusty Peterson's Field Guide to the #Moths by Beadle and Leckie (2012 edition).

    #caterpillar #moths #insects #lepidoptera #biology #biodiversity #nature #entomology #caterpillars #naturephotography

  5. My best-guess ID for this #caterpillar, encountered yesterday afternoon on the sidewalk, is the Yellow Woolly Bear, larva of the Virginia Tiger Moth (Spilosoma virginica). This is based on the lazy method of asking AI to identify the photo, plus looking it up in an actual book, my trusty Peterson's Field Guide to the #Moths by Beadle and Leckie (2012 edition).

    #caterpillar #moths #insects #lepidoptera #biology #biodiversity #nature #entomology #caterpillars #naturephotography

  6. Melloona – where things grow a little differently

    • ♥ ! • Happy Fantasy Faire • ! ♥ • It’s that time of the year again. Every year I think I know what to expect, and every year it still feels a bit unreal when everything finally comes together. What starts as scattered ideas becomes a world of its own. This year, Luna and I sponsored and built Melloona. Melloona is a quiet, curious realm where the familiar turns gently impossible. Expect wild colors, vines and of course, melons. It doesn’t shout, it hums softly and […]

    alruniaahn.wordpress.com/2026/

  7. L'occasion de rappeler que #Caterpillar est complice du génocide en #Palestine et fournit des bulldozers à l'armée israélienne.

    Si jamais vous comptiez acheter ce genre de chose, je vous suggère nos voisins allemands de chez #Liebherr, voire si c'est pour des plus petits trucs, du français avec #Mecalac.

  8. A young Vapourer (Orgyia antiqua) moth caterpillar. This unusual caterpillar with its mohawk-like tufts of hair feeds on a wide variety of trees and shrubs. On Winsley Hill, near #Bath #Somerset #UK.
    #insect #moth #caterpillar #wildlife #nature #insectphoto #naturephoto

  9. Spotted this splendid #caterpillar this morning (two pics - one with a pink flower head also in shot to give a sense of scale and one with the caterpillar the sole focus).
    #photography #nature #insects #LifeCycles

  10. While I was out foraging, the garden had a visitor from another planet. Well, it looks like it could be from another planet, but it's just a caterpillar of an Old World Swallowtail (Papilio machaon). A species of butterfly that's beautiful (and reasonably big) also after metamorphosis.

    #Wildlife #Butterfly #Caterpillar #Photography #SamsungNX #Rangefinder #Zoom #DetailPhotography #PancakeLens

  11. Spotted this VERY early (< 0.5cm) monarch #butterfly #caterpillar and the evidence of its feeding on a weedy milkweed by my building's loading dock

    #naturalist #herbivory

  12. Unknown species, new sighting 2023 in UK garden.

    This little caterpillar is about 2cm long. It developed inside a healthy plum fruit and then emerged almost colourless, before turning slightly pink, once the plum started to discolour / start going over.

    If anyone can ID this species it would be very helpful, thanks in advance.

    #caterpillar #newsighting #unknownspecies #IDrequired

  13. @PetraOleum Caterpillar for the win!

    I just popped out and had a look. Hungry caterpillar has no time for games. Hungry caterpillar eats right across it's old mine and keeps on feeding.

    inaturalist.nz/observations/15

    #caterpillar #herbivory #nz #Aotearoa #LeafMine #insects

  14. Here's a little caterpillar of the NZ endemic moth species, Zapyrastra calliphana, mining it's way through a leaf of the NZ native plant, Muehlenbeckia australis.

    This native caterpillar only eats this kind of native plant. Each caterpillar completes its larval life inside just one leaf, before dropping to the ground to pupate.

    I found this in my garden on Friday as part of the City Nature Challenge (#CNC2023).

    inaturalist.nz/observations/15

    #caterpillar #moth #Aotearoa #NZ #herbivory

  15. Here are a few #horsetail plants, seen on my walk #today (yesterday, actually).

    Plus a wandering "woolly bear" (#TigerMoth) #caterpillar.

    Horsetails are 150 million-year-old living fossils that were eaten by - yes! - Jurassic #dinosaurs.

    Also, their unique node spacing inspired #JohnNapier in 1614 to invent #logarithms.

    Admittedly, some rude US jurisdictions (wtf Oregon...?) classify them as noxious weeds.

    But imho this is an amazing plant with a wonderful résumé 💚

    #Equisetum #Spring