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  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. Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining

    Caterpillar has spent decades putting autonomous machines to work at remote mining sites. It’s now bringing that experience to AI deployment.

    justpaste.in/news/caterpillar-

    #AI #caterpillar #mining #Enterprise #company

  7. 💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐛💨 Dr. Adrian Smith captures high speed footage of a giant spiny leaf #insect taking flight and a #butterfly #caterpillar firing frass pellets (aka insect #poop) away from its body.

    Filmed at 1,500 frames per second, the detailed #video shows insect movement, #flight, and ballistic #defense mechanisms.

    👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/giant-stick-in

    #beetles #biology #butterflies #camouflage #flying #larvae #science #slowmotion #stickinsect #technology #tech #entomology #tksst #video

  8. We have a lot of milkweed plants but haven't seen too many monarch caterpillars. Yesterday though, I spotted a good sized one! #monarch #caterpillar #photography #summer #closeup #milkweed #illinois

  9. "“It’s gross at one level, but it’s also kind of adorable. They’re cruising around like, ‘Oh, this looks delicious. I’ll eat some of this and then put the rest on my back.’”

    In 2024 a new species of caterpillars got discovered on Hawaii that not only use other insects' body parts to hide under but also occasionally are cannibalists! I just love everything about this.

    nationalgeographic.com/animals

    #caterpillar #carnivorous #cannibalism #zoology #mothSpider #camouflage

  10. 𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

    ✧ Euthrix potatoria ✧

    Euthrix potatoria, commonly known as the drinker, is an orange-brown moth in the family Lasiocampidae. The species' common and scientific names derive from the larva's supposed drinking of drops of dew. It is found in Europe, most frequently found in marshy places, fens and riversides but may also be seen in drier, grassy ter...

    #Lasiocampidae #caterpillar #Europe #Estonia #Keila #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthrix_