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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. All 5 Black Swallowtail caterpillars have now formed chrysalids. Oddly enough, the final caterpillar decided to position itself right in between two existing chrysalids, a tight squeeze. And the upper chrysalis shown here is slightly larger than the other two; possibly a female?

    See ecoevo.social/@richard_a_lent/

    #insects #butterflies #butterfly #lepidoptera #caterpillar #entomology #ecology #biology #biodiversity #nature #naturephotography #butterflyphotography #naturestudy

  3. 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

  4. #caterpillar #NativePlants #Iowa

    On the #DailyWalk, I checked out a few different Swamp Milkweed plants that I had noticed in bloom a few weeks ago.

    It looks like deer have chomped the young seedpods. Definitely not good for increasing the number of plants.

    On the good side, I found another monarch caterpillar.

  5. Another interesting garden find. This morning we came across a hornworm caterpillar covered in parasitic wasp cocoons. Unfortunately this eventually kills the caterpillar but the wasp are beneficial to the ecosystem killing pest bugs. Just nature being nature which I find pretty cool, and a bit brutal.

    Have an awesome Saturday!

    #gardening #caterpillar #wasp #insects #nature

  6. Monarch #Caterpillar

    I actually started this a couple of months ago, but then stalled out on the flower buds, feeling both bored and intimidated by them.
    finally got inspired to finish during this recent drawing hyperfocus.

    #drawing #art #penAndInk #butterfly

  7. Four out of the 5 Black Swallowtail caterpillars have either formed or are in the process of forming chrysalids. In the photo the upper caterpillar has assumed the characteristic J shape prior to becoming a chrysalis, and the bottom one has completed forming the chrysalis.

    See ecoevo.social/@richard_a_lent/.

    #insects #butterflies #butterfly #lepidoptera #caterpillar #entomology #ecology #biology #biodiversity #nature #naturephotography #butterflyphotography #naturestudy

  8. #Caterpillar #Butterflies #NativePlants

    On today’s #DailyWalk, I took along the loppers and a handsaw. Part of my trail system goes across an area that’s often too soggy to mow, and that area needed some clearing before I can go through again with the tractor/mower.

    Anyway, there’s swamp milkweed in the swampy area 🤔🤠 And on one plant I found a monarch butterfly caterpillar.

  9. We now have 5 Black Swallowtail caterpillars on the garden Fennel. We collected them and have sacrificed more Fennel so that the cats (to use the cool/nerdy lepidopterist's slang for caterpillars) are now ensconced in a luxurious cage for observation. We thus hope to guide them on their journey to butterfly-hood.

    #insects #butterflies #butterfly #lepidoptera #caterpillar #entomology #ecology #biology #biodiversity #nature #naturephotography #butterflyphotography #naturestudy

  10. I don't think I've ever seen them before. They were all over nettles in one small area.

    EDIT: Peacock butterfy, Aglais io. Great thanks to @harrysentonbury for identifying them.

    #nature #caterpillar #caterpillarsofmastodon #Polesia

  11. #israel #lebanon #usa #japan #china #southkorea : #militaryinvasion / #devastation / #tnc / #multinationals / #complicity

    „Images show Israeli military using six companies’ bulldozers and excavators to demolish south Lebanon villages.

    The Guardian geolocated and verified images showing the Israeli military using excavators made by 6 companies – #Caterpillar, #Volvo, #Hyundai, #Doosan, #Hitachi and #Komatsu – to destroy homes, public utilities, shops and …

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    theguardian.com/world/2026/jun

  12. Liban : les experts des droits de l'homme ont allégué que 6 conglomérats de matériel de construction multinationaux ( #Caterpillar, #Volvo, #Hyundai, #Doosan, #Hitachi et #Komatsu) pourraient aider et encourager les crimes de #guerre en fournissant des pelleteuses et des bulldozers à #Israël pour détruire des maisons, des services publics, des magasins et d’autres structures à travers le sud du #Liban. theguardian.com/world/2026/jun

    #actu #actualite #info #information

  13. 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/

  14. 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.

  15. 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝗼𝘁𝘀𝘁𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗲𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗸𝗼𝗼𝗽𝘁 𝗮𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗻 𝗜𝘀𝗿𝗮ë𝗹-𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗿

    Het grootste pensioenfonds van Nederland, ABP, heeft een belang van honderden miljoenen euro's in de Amerikaanse machinebouwer Caterpillar van de hand gedaan. De bulldozers en graafmachines van Caterpillar worden door Israël gebruikt in Palestijnse...

    rtl.nl/nieuws/economie/artikel

    #Nederlandse #pensioenfonds #Caterpillar

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. An unidentified butterfly or moth caterpillar in Central Park (late May). From a distance these look 'fuzzy', but up close you can see that the hairs really are big spikes/needles. Hopefully no one was silly enough to actually touch it.

    #caterpillar #lepidoptera #spines #nature #wildlife #insects #entomology #centralpark #nycparks #macro #ultramacro #canonphotography #luminarneo

  19. @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

  20. 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

  21. 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