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  1. This caterpillar is about ten centimetres long and about one centimetre in diameter. It spends three years growing inside a tree, gnawing its way through a tunnel there. Look at those tools it has at the front. The literature mentions branches snapping. I came across this one just as it was deciding where to pupate. It will then emerge as an inconspicuous, well-camouflaged large moth. It’s called the wood-plunderer, which is hardly surprising.
    #nature #macrophoto #moth #caterpillar

  2. This caterpillar is about ten centimetres long and about one centimetre in diameter. It spends three years growing inside a tree, gnawing its way through a tunnel there. Look at those tools it has at the front. The literature mentions branches snapping. I came across this one just as it was deciding where to pupate. It will then emerge as an inconspicuous, well-camouflaged large moth. It’s called the wood-plunderer, which is hardly surprising.
    #nature #macrophoto #moth #caterpillar

  3. This caterpillar is about ten centimetres long and about one centimetre in diameter. It spends three years growing inside a tree, gnawing its way through a tunnel there. Look at those tools it has at the front. The literature mentions branches snapping. I came across this one just as it was deciding where to pupate. It will then emerge as an inconspicuous, well-camouflaged large moth. It’s called the wood-plunderer, which is hardly surprising.
    #nature #macrophoto #moth #caterpillar

  4. This caterpillar is about ten centimetres long and about one centimetre in diameter. It spends three years growing inside a tree, gnawing its way through a tunnel there. Look at those tools it has at the front. The literature mentions branches snapping. I came across this one just as it was deciding where to pupate. It will then emerge as an inconspicuous, well-camouflaged large moth. It’s called the wood-plunderer, which is hardly surprising.
    #nature #macrophoto #moth #caterpillar

  5. This caterpillar is about ten centimetres long and about one centimetre in diameter. It spends three years growing inside a tree, gnawing its way through a tunnel there. Look at those tools it has at the front. The literature mentions branches snapping. I came across this one just as it was deciding where to pupate. It will then emerge as an inconspicuous, well-camouflaged large moth. It’s called the wood-plunderer, which is hardly surprising.
    #nature #macrophoto #moth #caterpillar

  6. The #moth #Eilema #caniola (#Arctiinae, #Erebidae), a #species that thrives in warm conditions, was originally distributed from Northwest Africa through Southern and Central #Europe to Western Asia; however, it is increasingly #expanding its #range #northward due to #globalwarming and has been appearing in #Berlin for about six or seven years. The #caterpillars feed on #saxicolous and #terricolous #lichens.
    © #StefanFWirth

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    © S.F. Wirth, Berlin

  7. The #moth #Eilema #caniola (#Arctiinae, #Erebidae), a #species that thrives in warm conditions, was originally distributed from Northwest Africa through Southern and Central #Europe to Western Asia; however, it is increasingly #expanding its #range #northward due to #globalwarming and has been appearing in #Berlin for about six or seven years. The #caterpillars feed on #saxicolous and #terricolous #lichens.
    © #StefanFWirth

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    #Photos:
    © S.F. Wirth, Berlin

  8. The #moth #Eilema #caniola (#Arctiinae, #Erebidae), a #species that thrives in warm conditions, was originally distributed from Northwest Africa through Southern and Central #Europe to Western Asia; however, it is increasingly #expanding its #range #northward due to #globalwarming and has been appearing in #Berlin for about six or seven years. The #caterpillars feed on #saxicolous and #terricolous #lichens.
    © #StefanFWirth

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    #Photos:
    © S.F. Wirth, Berlin

  9. The #moth #Eilema #caniola (#Arctiinae, #Erebidae), a #species that thrives in warm conditions, was originally distributed from Northwest Africa through Southern and Central #Europe to Western Asia; however, it is increasingly #expanding its #range #northward due to #globalwarming and has been appearing in #Berlin for about six or seven years. The #caterpillars feed on #saxicolous and #terricolous #lichens.
    © #StefanFWirth

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    #Photos:
    © S.F. Wirth, Berlin

  10. The #moth #Eilema #caniola (#Arctiinae, #Erebidae), a #species that thrives in warm conditions, was originally distributed from Northwest Africa through Southern and Central #Europe to Western Asia; however, it is increasingly #expanding its #range #northward due to #globalwarming and has been appearing in #Berlin for about six or seven years. The #caterpillars feed on #saxicolous and #terricolous #lichens.
    © #StefanFWirth

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    #Photos:
    © S.F. Wirth, Berlin