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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. 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

  8. Woodland Minibeast Macros

    The title’s a bit of a mouthful, and I hope you like these shots from a morning’s walk in a young woodland plantation near me. It was planted up as a screen to hide an extension to the local limestone quarry, and it’s now becoming quite the place for a mini beast walk.

    Start with the least interesting, perhaps. This is, I believe, a Turnip Sawfly Caterpillar, and the oak saplings are full of them. Hopefully the saplings will recover once the caterpillars have fed and fallen to the ground to pupate.

    A little more colourful and still devouring the oaks, this is apparently a mottled umber moth caterpillar. You’ll have to trust me and I’ll have to trust the AI I used to identify it. Oh my, the conflicts of AI technology, but it does have its uses… and its downside too, of course.

    Now this fella (I think it’s a male, as I also saw the much larger female on a previous visit) is a green cucumber spider. I spent a lot of time shooting this chap, and he’s simply gorgeous! So much so I know you’ll enjoy a close up… oh, you don’t like spiders?

    What a cutie…

    This shot is actually from my back garden, and from a sequence of shots as these two volucella bombylans hoverflies make a few more copies… most of the shots were top-down and less interesting, but at this point the stick they were, um, perched on rolled over. It didn’t dampen their ardour in any way I could see.

    And down in the nature reserve, during the weekly butterfly count, I stumbled (literally) over this slow worm as it sunbathed. Wasn’t harmed and I restored it’s hiding place before I left.

    There you go. A random selection of creatures. It does seem my photography is more ‘nature’ focused… well, it’s where I find my peace. I don’t know if the nature I interact with enjoys it as much as me, but I’ve never had complaints.

    If there are complaints and you wish to toss dung at me, here’s the fella who’ll be appreciate it – a golden dung beetle!

    #caterpillar #cucumberSpider #dungFly #minibeasts #oak #photography #slowWorm #spider
  9. 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.

  10. Fuzzy caterpillar that develops into the Salt Marsh Moth (Estigmene acrea), Ormond Beach, Oxnard, California August 2021 #insect #moth #saltmarshmonth #bug #caterpillar #ormondBeach #oxnard #photgraphy #nikon

  11. The Moth Progresses

    I posted last week about finding a caterpillar of the largest moth in north America (5-7in wingspan) ... now it has progressed from 2nd to 3rd instar and all is well. Click the link for a photo and a link to the original post.

    richardgregson.ca/2023/07/05/t

    #Baie-DUrfe, #Insects, #Moth #Caterpillar #Cecropia